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discolored

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dis·col·or  (ds-klr)
v. dis·col·ored, dis·col·or·ing, dis·col·ors
v.tr.
To alter or spoil the color of; stain.
v.intr.
To become altered or spoiled in color.

[Middle English discolouren, from Old French discolerer : des-, dis- + colourer, to color (from Latin colrre, from color, color; see color).]


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Groans, and convulsions, and a discolored face, and friends weeping, and blacks, and obsequies, and the like, show death terrible.
Remember, also, that the surgeon must operate from above, some eight or ten feet intervening between him and his subject, and that subject almost hidden in a discolored, rolling, and oftentimes tumultuous and bursting sea.
The former are generally the objects of jealousy, and their administration is always liable to be discolored and rendered unpopular.
 
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