colorize
Americanverb (used with object)
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It’s mission-critical for the concrete you’re going to colorize to be sound, clean and very slightly damp.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 25, 2024
Why did they colorize the blood on one victim’s face, but not any blood on the zombies?
From Slate ● Oct. 31, 2022
“The budget we had was to colorize about 30 to 40 minutes of film.”
From New York Times ● Dec. 16, 2018
Photos can also now colorize your older photos — even if they weren’t shot in color to begin with.
From The Verge ● May 8, 2018
But some lifeless specimens have slipped into the language, among them colorize, prioritize, and finalize, and they’re probably going to be around for a while.
From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner
He placed two panels of 25 images each side by side, half colorized and half black and white, alluding to religious diptychs of the past.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 20, 2026
The pollen grains of various common plants like sunflower, morning glories, prairie hollyhock, oriental lily, evening primrose and castor bean — magnified 500 times and colorized in this image — display intricate patterns.
From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2022
All the colorized statues are interpretations of what the polychrome scholars believe they may have looked like.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 11, 2022
Wrap it all together in an awkwardly colorized, pinball-themed cover, and you’ve got the latest Eminem-themed Twitter fodder for the day.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 12, 2022
“I like your room,” I said, going over to look at a colorized Frankenstein poster on the wall.
From "From Twinkle, with Love" by Sandhya Menon
While they shot in black and white on set with a digital camera and customized image mapping, the conversion was done in parallel: colorizing the monochrome footage with different mapping and fine-tuning.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 16, 2026
If you’re colorizing your stucco, add some pigment to your cement paint, too.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 25, 2024
The movie, which was a box office hit with nearly $20 million worldwide, found Jackson colorizing and restoring old World War I footage.
From Salon ● May 15, 2019
That colorizing wore off over the years, or was removed after ancient works were rediscovered.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 21, 2018
It was obsessed by being besmirched and colorizing the besmirching.
From An Apostate: Nawin of Thais by Steven (Steven David Justin) Sills
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