to dye
- verb
- /daɪ/
- I'll dye my hair.
- dye hair
Wear a funny hat and dye your hair.
- Wear a funny hat and dye your hair.
- The cheese inside is dyed pink or blue for girls or boys.
- I don't know anything about how they dye my hair.
- I was not so and I offered to dye my hair.
- They are used to dye both in yellow and in red.
- All right, Kenzie, time to dye your eyebrows.
- I've always wanted to dye my hair, so I did it.
- Have you have you dyed your hair lately?
Examples
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Dye my hair blonde for the movies.
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Today is the day that we're going to dye Jay's hair.
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Wear a funny hat and dye your hair.
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If I ever decide to dye my hair again, please stop me.
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Do you dye your hair?
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I want to dye my hair black and go to Malaysia.
Fiction book (1998) -
Ashton wants to dye her hair red for her birthday.
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I'm dyeing my hair blonde.
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Guy Fietti is actually naturally blonde but dyes his tips black.
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She decided to dye her hair a vibrant shade of red for the summer.
Synonyms
To make bright, uneven patterns on fabric by folding and tying parts then adding color
To make something a different shade by painting, dyeing, or editing
To give a material or object a deep color
To color fabric or yarn by hand to make different shades
To dye wool or cloth so the color stays deep
To dye fabric after it is woven rather than dyeing yarn first
To dye fibers before they are spun into thread
Antonyms
Idioms
Phrasal Verbs
Compounds
- Specialized
A man-made chemical with two linked rings used in photography and to stain cells
- Specialized
A dye that colours cotton and similar fabrics without using a fixing chemical
- Specialized
A substance that glows under ultraviolet light to show or track things in science
- Specialized
A dye that contains a metal to give strong, long-lasting colour to fabric
- Specialized
A dye that blocks X-rays to make organs or blood vessels visible on scans
- Specialized
A coloring that sticks to fibers like cotton or rayon without extra treatment
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Surface Forms
Etymology
Dye comes from a very old idea of 'giving color' to cloth or hair, like dipping fabric into a colored liquid. So to dye something is simply to 'give it color' or change its color.