coloured
verb
Meaning
- To give something color.
- To apply colors to the areas within the boundaries of a line drawing using colored markers or crayons.
- (of a person or their face) To become red through increased blood flow.
- To affect without completely changing.
- To attribute a quality to; to portray (as).
- To assign colors to the vertices of a graph (or the regions of a map) so that no two vertices connected by an edge (regions sharing a border) have the same color.
- A colored person.
- (laundry) A colored article of clothing.
- Having a color.
- Having a particular color or kind of color.
- Having prominent colors; colorful.
- Influenced pervasively but subtly.
- Of skin color other than white; in particular, black.
- Of neither black nor white skin color.
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