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🟦 A blue color 🌌 Bright blue 🎨 To make blue
to azure

to azure

9.9
To make something sky blue
  • verb
  • /ˈeɪʒər/
  • Literature
translation icon : teñir de azul
  • The sky azured beautifully at dawn.

Examples

  • They decided to azure the walls of the new house.

  • The early dawn slowly azured the eastern sky.

  • As she painted the canvas, she skillfully azured the background to capture the calm serenity of the sea.

  • Spring skies azure the mountain peaks with a delicate hue.

  • At sunrise, the painter azured the canvas to reflect the vibrant blue of the morning sky.

  • The artist decided to azure the background of his painting to capture the essence of a clear day.

  • As the day progressed, the horizon azured, signaling the arrival of a beautiful afternoon.

Synonyms

to blue
vsto azure
1 8.7

To become the color of a clear sky

is literary and refers especially to a clear sky color

Antonyms

to fade
531 1.2

To slowly become less visible, bright, or loud

to dull
33 3.4

Cause something to become less sharp, strong or bright

Compounds

azure aster
  • US
9.8

A long-lived plant with bright blue daisy-like flowers that blooms in late summer

How Blue

to azure
  • Literature
9.9
to dye
37 2.2
to paint
854 1.0
to color
  • US
228 1.0
to tint
24 3.6

Surface Forms

azure infinitive
azureed past
azureed past participle
azureing present participle
azures third person singular

Etymology

Azure as a verb shares the same origin from Persian lajvard and Arabic al-lazaward, names for the blue stone 'lapis lazuli' whose pigment painters used to make bright blue. So to azure something is to make it, or to become, a sky-blue color.