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col·or·ize  (kl-rz)

tr.v. col·or·ized, col·or·iz·ing, col·or·iz·es

To impart color to (black-and-white film) by means of a computer-assisted process: "Be prepared . . . for the . . . colorized version of Topper" Vincent Canby.

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color·iz·er n.

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Verb

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colorize - add color to; "The child colored the drawings"; "Fall colored the trees"; "colorize black and white film" color, color in, colorise, colour in, colourise, colourize, colour alter, change, modify - cause to change; make different; cause a transformation; "The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city"; "The discussion has changed my thinking about the issue" blackwash - color with blackwash parti-color, motley - make motley; color with different colors polychrome, polychromise, polychromize - color with many colors; make polychrome azure - color azure; "Morning azured the village" empurple, purpurate, purple - color purple aurify - turn golden verdigris - color verdigris pinkify - make pink incarnadine - make flesh-colored brown, embrown - make brown in color; "the draught browned the leaves on the trees in the yard" handcolor, handcolour - color by hand; "Some old photographs are handcolored" tinct, tint, tinge, touch - color lightly; "her greying hair was tinged blond"; "the leaves were tinged red in November" pigment - color or dye with a pigment; "pigment a photograph" hue, imbue - suffuse with color retouch - give retouches to (hair); "retouch the roots" silver - make silver in color; "Her worries had silvered her hair" gray, grey - make grey; "The painter decided to grey the sky" tone - change to a color image; "tone a photographic image" redden - make red; "The setting sun reddened the sky" blotch, mottle, streak - mark with spots or blotches of different color or shades of color as if stained