grey
/ɡɹeɪ//ɡɹeɪ/adjective
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Having a color.
Example: Wash colored items separately from whites and darks to prevent the colors from bleeding.
Having a particular color or kind of color.
Example: The room was red, with a dark-colored rug.
Having prominent colors; colorful.
Example: The singer wore a colored shirt.
Influenced pervasively but subtly.
Example: My opinions are colored by my upbringing.
noun
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An achromatic colour intermediate between black and white.
An animal or thing of grey colour, such as a horse, badger, or salmon.
An extraterrestrial humanoid with greyish skin, bulbous black eyes, and an enlarged head.
verb
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To become grey.
Example: My hair is beginning to grey.
To cause to become grey.
To turn progressively older, in the context of the population of a geographic region.
Example: the greying of Europe
To give a soft effect to (a photograph) by covering the negative while printing with a ground-glass plate.
adjective
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Having a color somewhere between white and black, as the ash of an ember.
Dreary, gloomy.
Having an indistinct, disputed or uncertain quality.
Relating to older people.
Example: the grey dollar, i.e. the purchasing power of the elderly