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lose color

verb as in pale

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When his chest stopped moving and his face appeared to lose color, the prison doctor called his name, listened to his heart, opened both his eyes and inspected them under a light.

Succulent varieties that require more direct light will become etiolated and lose color without it.

The discovery is particularly disturbing, researchers said, because a cooling La Niña weather pattern in the ocean usually offsets warming that stresses coral and causes them to lose color.

“If you look at little kids, they have this natural rosebud healthy-looking lips, and as we mature and age, I feel like women really lose color in our lips,” said Nam Vo, a makeup artist who champions a moist look she calls “dewy dumpling glow” on her popular Instagram account.

“She didn’t have money for birth control,” said her mother, Lucibel Marcano, 51, who cared for Fexsibel in her final hours, watching her daughter’s face lose color.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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