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sävyttää — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • accentuate verb To make something more noticeable or prominent; to emphasize.
  • dye noun A substance used to change the colour of something, especially fabric or hair.
  • tincture noun A medicine made by dissolving a substance in alcohol.
  • tint noun A slight or pale shade of a color.
  • tone noun The quality or character of a sound, especially its pitch, timbre, or emotional colouring.
  • wash verb To clean something using water, usually with soap.

Senses

sävyttää is used for these senses in English:

  • accentuate (transitive) To pronounce with an accent or vocal stress.
  • dye (ambitransitive) To colour with dye, or as if with dye.
  • tincture (chiefly, in past participle form) To colour or stain (something) with, or as if with, a dye or pigment.
  • tint (transitive, intransitive) To shade, to color.
  • tone (transitive) to give a particular tone to
  • tone (transitive) to change the colour of
  • wash (transitive) To cover with a thin or watery coat of colour; to tint lightly and thinly.

dye — full definition

  1. noun A substance used to change the colour of something, especially fabric or hair.
  2. verb To change the colour of something using dye.

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