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tönen — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • resound verb To fill a space with sound, or to echo loudly.
  • tinge noun A small trace of colour, or by extension, of any quality.
  • tint noun A slight or pale shade of a color.

Senses

tönen is used for these senses in English:

  • resound To praise or spread the fame of (someone or something) with the voice or the sound of musical instruments; to celebrate, to extol; also, to declare (someone) to be a certain thing.
  • tinge (transitive) To add a small amount of colour; to tint; (by extension) to add a small amount of some other thing.
  • tint (transitive, intransitive) To shade, to color.

tinge — full definition

  1. noun A small trace of colour, or by extension, of any quality.
  2. verb To add a slight trace of colour or quality to something.

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