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Dear WO'N: I spent half an hour trying to think of phosphoresce, and could only think of fluoresce and with a bit of stretch, luminesce. I still have more than ten left.
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saturate/desaturate, dull(v.), opacifiy, wash out.., flop(n.) is used for paints (e.g. on cars) which change color according to the angle of sight.
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Dear Dr. Bill, an interesting question: I originally posted iridesce and phosporesce, but couldn't find iridesce listed in any dictionary as a verb, so I changed them back to their noun incarnations. Can you establish the verb form of iridesce with a citation? Peculiarly, all the others are listed as verbs in that form, but not iridesce? Tsuwm? Anyone?
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"The corals iridesced under the surface of the clear water''
(try OneLook.com; W3 gives it as a back-formation from iridescent)
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I confess to backformations, scraping bottom of barrel.Stretching things a bit: pink,tan,fade,sallow,inflame,stripe,ensanguine,clarify,freckle,cyanose,glow,luminesce,irradiate,fluoresce,scintillate, coruscate,opalesce,exsanguinate,wan, and as a joke, litmus - chemical test, changes color with pH.
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Here's the list with probably a few repetitions, but I've tried to avoid numbering an entry that had been repeated. I also edited out a lot of commentary. Just thought this might be of use if anyone wanted to copy the entries.
The List:
1.shading 2.tone 3.tint 4.fading Jackie 5.redden wwh 6. blend 7. tincture 8. complexion 9. timbre wow 10. lighten 11. darken 12. negativize jazzoctopus 13. brighten 14. dim 15. Does convert to grey scale count, or is there a single word for that?) 16. sharpen 17. dull 18. highlight 19. enhance 20. clarify 21. muddy 22.Shadow? 23.wash out? 24.make translucent"; WW screwed up the numbering here; sorry26."make opaque"? I won't count redden, 27.blacken, 28whiten, since Dr. Bill has made those easy. Keiva
How about 29.incarnadine,30.empurple,31.iridesce,32.blanch,33.jaundice,34.blush,35.flush,whiten,blacken,36.green (as in environmentalists "greening",37.blue (as in blue a gun barrel) 38.brown (as toast) 39.pale,40.grizzle,41.bleach,42.dye,..... wwh 43.stain, dye, 44.paint, 45.marble, 46.splash, 47.woad 48.color, 49.discolor [heh] 50.infuscate (darken), 51.scumble (soften), 52.countershade (lighten/darken), 53.embrown (tan), 54.rubrify (redden) 55.embrown and 56.empurple tsuwm 57.Pigment (v.); 58.pigmentation; 59.iridescence; 60.phosphorescence WoN 61.floresce 62.luminesce wwh 63.saturate/64.desaturate, 65.dull(v.), 66.opacifiy, 67.wash out.., 68.flop(n.) is used for paints (e.g. on cars) which change color according to the angle of sight wsieber I confess to backformations, scraping bottom of barrel.Stretching things a bit: 69.pink,70.tan,71.fade,72.sallow,73.inflame,74.stripe, 75.ensanguine,76.clarify,77.freckle,78.cyanose,79.glow, 80.luminesce,81.irradiate,82.fluoresce,83.scintillate, 84.coruscate,85.opalesce,86.exsanguinate,87.wan, and as a joke, 88.litmus - chemical test, changes color with pH. wwh
I'll offer: 89.dapple/dappled 90.brindle/brindled 91.mute 92.intensify 93.deepen 94.pointillistic 95. bleed/bled/bleeding (of oils) 96.glitzed 97.neon (colors changed to) 98.hot (colors changed to) 99. smoky (of various colors, e.g., gray, white) 100. inumbrate/inumbrated 111. to blue (as of fabrics) 112. to tiedye 113. to gild 114. to bronze 115.patina
Best regards, WW
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