😷 Yellowish skin 🌳 A willow tree 🟡 To make yellowish

to sallow

9.9

Make someone's face look yellow or unhealthy

verb
/ˈsæloʊ/

: amarillear

Illness and confinement began to sallow the complexion of the entire family.

Examples

Her face was sallowed by months of worry and sleepless nights.
The long winter had sallowed his cheeks and dulled his eyes.
Don't sallow your skin!
His illness seemed to sallow him overnight.
The medication made his complexion sallow after just a few days.
Long hours in the sun without protection left her skin looking sallow and tired.
Stress and lack of sleep caused him to appear sallow at the meeting.

Antonyms

to revitalize

45 4.8

To give new life and energy to something

to brighten

27 2.7

To make a place or thing look more cheerful by adding color

How Discolored

to stain

113 3.2

to sallow

9.9

to color

228 1.0

to tint

24 3.6

Surface Forms

sallow infinitive

sallowed past

sallowed past participle

sallowing present participle

sallows third person singular

Etymology

Sallow (verb) comes from the adjective: to sallow someone is to make them look 'sallow'—that is, to give their face a yellowish, sick look, like the pale colour of sallow leaves.