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🎨 A second dyeing 🎨 To dye again
to overdye

to overdye

7.4
To add a new color to fabric again to change or deepen its look
  • verb
  • /ˈoʊvərˌdaɪ/
  • Specialized
translation icon : sobredecir
  • After a few washes, he chose to overdye the faded curtains in a richer shade.

Examples

  • You could also retie it and overdye it in black or another darker color.

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  • Overdye it some mostly solid blue, and you'll still have the tie-dye patterns, but without the TOOLONG ... thing.

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  • You could always overdye it.

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  • She decided to overdye her old shirt to give it a fresh look.

  • To restore its original vibrancy, you can overdye the fabric in a bright color.

Synonyms

to recolor
vsto overdye
  • US
1 3.4

To make something a different shade by painting, dyeing, or editing

is limited to changing color by dyeing again for correction or effect
to double dye
vsto overdye
7.9

To color something twice to make its color stronger

is used when correcting or enhancing an existing color by dyeing again

How Saturated

to saturate
55 5.2
to overdye
  • Specialized
7.4
to tint
24 3.6

Surface Forms

overdye infinitive
overdyed past
overdyed past participle
overdyeing present participle
overdyes third person singular

Morphology

overdye = dye (transparent) = over + dye

Formed by productive prefixation: 'over-' added to the verb 'dye' to indicate doing the dyeing again or adding more colour.

Etymology

Overdye combines over ('on top' or 'again') and dye ('to color'), so to overdye something is to colour it again or put a new colour on top to change or improve how it looks.