To decolorize means to strip color from something — either by a chemical process (bleaching fabrics, treating water, refining sugar) or through natural fading over time.
To decolorize means to strip color from something — either by a chemical process (bleaching fabrics, treating water, refining sugar) or through natural fading over time. The word is primarily technical and scientific but shows up in everyday contexts too: when your hair fades, when jeans get bleached out, or when old photographs lose their vibrancy. The US spelling drops the "u" that British English keeps in "decolourise." Functional, direct, no-frills vocabulary.
The bleach solution will decolorize the stain without damaging the fabric.
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That has lost some of its former vividness and colour.
(intransitive, graphic design, photography) To inadvertently or intentionally reduce the number of colours in a photograph or other image, changing a continuous gradation of tone to several regions of fewer tones with abrupt changes from one tone to another.
(slang, humorous) To mask or remove the odor from; to deodorize.
(US, intransitive) To lose one’s color.
(US, transitive) To remove the color from.