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colorsnounpl. of color a piece of cloth with a special design that is used as an emblem or for signalingflew their country's colors atop the highest mast on the ship banderole(or banderol), banner, ensign, flag, guidon, jack, pendant(also pendent, chiefly British), pennant, pennon, standard, streamer bunting, gonfalonblack flag, Jolly Roger, tricolor, union jack, white flagburgee, semaphore, signaler(or signaller), waftbadge, coat of arms, crest, insignia the combined army, air force, and navy of a nationshe hopes to carry on the family tradition and serve with the colors armed forces, military, service, troops GIs(or GI's), men-at-arms, rank and file, servicemen, servicewomen, soldiers, soldieryforcemilitia, reservesarmor, defensegendarmerie(or gendarmery) civilians, noncombatants the set of qualities that makes a person, a group of people, or a thing different from otherswe saw his true colors during the emergency character, clay, complexion, constitution, genius, nature, personality, self, tone distinctiveness, distinctness, individuality, singularity, uniquenessattribute, characteristic, earmark, essentiality, feature, flavor, hallmark, mark, point, property, savor(also savour), stamp, traitdisposition, grain, sort, temper, temperamentcomposition, makeupessence, essentiality, interior, interiority, soul, spiritmetal, stuff, substancehabit, way to give color or a different color toper the couple's request, the baker used natural ingredients like beet juice and tumeric to color the icing for the wedding cake bepaints(archaic), dyes, paints, pigments, stains, tinctures, tinges, tints brightens, lightensdarkens, embrowns, tones (down)checkers, dapples, daubs, flecks, marbles, mottles, patterns, polychromes, speckles, specks, streaks, striates, stripes, variegates decolorizes blanches, bleaches, whitens to add to the interest of by including made-up detailshe gave a highly colored version of a rather mundane experience elaborates (on), embellishes, embroiders, exaggerates, hyperbolizes, magnifies, pads, stretches dresses up, gussies upamplifies, enhances, enlarges (on or upon), expands, fleshes (out)fudges, hedgesoverdoes, overdraws, overemphasizes, overplays, overstatesemphasizes, plays up, stressescaricaturessatirizes belittles, minimizes, plays down, understates to change so much as to create a wrong impression or alter the meaning ofhis news reporting is colored by his prejudices bends, cooks, distorts, falsifies, fudges, garbles, misinterprets, misrelates, misrepresents, misstates, perverts, slants, twists, warps misdescribes, misspeaks, mistranslatesbelies, camouflages, disguises, dissembles, glosses (over), masks, veils, whitewashesbowdlerizes, censorscomplicates, confounds, confuses, mistakes, mixes (up)mystifies, obscuresequivocates, fibs, lies, palters, prevaricates clarifies, clears (up), explains, illuminates, illustrates, interprets, spells outdeciphers to develop a rosy facial color (as from excitement or embarrassment)she colored after hearing the nasty remarks about her weight blooms, blushes, crimsons, flushes, glows, reddens incarnadines, rouges, ruddlesabashes, chagrins, discomfits, disconcerts, embarrasses, fazes, humiliates, mortifies turns color |