descolorir
Portuguese, verb/d͡ʒis.ko.loˈɾi(ʁ)/
descolorir is spelled D-E-S-C-O-L-O-R-I-R (10 letters) and appears about once in every 4 million words in written Portuguese, the 62,059th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Descolorir is a Portuguese verb meaning “to discolor (lose color)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “perder a cor”.
What does descolorir mean in English?
verb
- 1
to discolor (lose color)
Minha camisa nova já descoloriu!
- 2
to discolor; to bleach (cause to lose color, mostly of the sun)
O sol descoloriu o plástico da mesa.
- 3
to bleach (treat with bleach, such as to lighten hair)
Te desafio a descolorir a sobrancelha.
- 4
to make (something/someone) less interesting; to impoverish
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. perder a cor 2. remover a cor
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of descolorir
- descolore present singular third-person
- descolori first-person preterite singular
- descolorido participle past
- descolorires infinitive second-person singular
- descolorirmos first-person infinitive plural
- descolorirdes infinitive plural second-person
- descolorirem infinitive plural third-person
- descolorindo gerund
- descoloridos masculine participle past
- descolorida feminine participle past
- descoloridas feminine participle past
- descolores indicative present second-person
- descolorimos first-person indicative plural
- descoloris indicative plural present
- descolorem indicative plural present
- descoloria first-person imperfect indicative
- descolorias imperfect indicative second-person
- descoloríamos first-person imperfect indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce descolorir?
- Brazil /d͡ʒis.ko.loˈɾi(ʁ)/
- Brazil [d͡ʒis.ko.loˈɾi(h)]
- Brazil /des.ko.loˈɾi(ʁ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is descolorir in Portuguese?
descolorir appears about once in every 4 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).