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colorize

American  
[kuhl-uh-rahyz] / ˈkʌl əˌraɪz /
especially British, colorise

verb (used with object)

colorized, colorizing
  1. to cause to appear in color; enhance with color, especially by computer.

    to colorize old black-and-white movies for television.


Other Word Forms


Etymology

Origin of colorize

First recorded in 1955–60; color + -ize


Example Sentences

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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

Once, while avoiding writing my book, I decided to colorize my bookshelves.

From New York Times ● Oct. 11, 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

Technology has evolved to a point where recently colorized films look, if not ideal, then at least passable on high-definition televisions.

From Salon ● May 8, 2026

Take a look at these colorized images of photos taken during the excavation process to see why.

From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023

The colorized statues also seem “new” in the sense that they have just been pressed or stamped by some modern industrial process, and thus lack the supposed authenticity of genuinely ancient things.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 11, 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

In 1986, Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert dedicated a full episode of their syndicated series “At the Movies” to sounding the alarm about the industry’s fascination with colorizing black-and-white films.

From Salon ● May 8, 2026

If you’re colorizing your stucco, add some pigment to your cement paint, too.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 25, 2024

It’s akin, some say, to colorizing a vintage black-and-white film to make it more palatable to audiences not used to that medium.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 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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