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Decolourise vs Decolorize - What's the difference?

decolourise | decolorize | Alternative forms |

Decolourise is an alternative form of decolorize.


As verbs the difference between decolourise and decolorize

is that decolourise is while decolorize is (us|transitive) to remove the color from.

decolourise

English

Verb

(decolouris)

    • decolorize

    English

    Alternative forms

    * decolourise, decolourize (Commonwealth) * decolorise

    Verb

    (decoloriz)
  • (US) To remove the color from.
  • (US) To lose one’s color.
  • * 1912 November, Edwin Henry Schorer, “Experimental Studies on Milk”, in Ludvig Hektoen and Edwin O. Jordan (editors), The Journal of Infectious Diseases , Volume II, Number 3, page 331:
    • According to Rühm fresh milk remains blue for 12 hours or more, and infected milk decolorizes in less than one hour.