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| Main Entry: |
grizzled
 [griz-uhld] 
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| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | silvery |
| Synonyms: | gray, grizzly, leaden |
| Main Entry: | whiten |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make or become extremely pale |
| Synonyms: | blanch, bleach, blench, chalk, decolor, decolorize, dull, etiolate, fade, frost, grizzle, lighten, pale, silver, turn pale, white, whitewash |
| Antonyms: | blacken, darken, dirty |
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Example Sentences
- Grizzled gray or orangish gray above, with buff underparts.
- Brown bears are often called grizzly bears because the tips of the hair on many of them is grayish, or grizzled.
- The common name of the genus refers to their elegant fur, which in this species is grizzled with long white hairs.
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