Definitions for dyeings

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dyeings dye·ing

Spelling: [dahy-ing]

IPA: /ˈdaɪ ɪŋ/

Dyeings is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 166 anagrams from letters in dyeings (deginsy).

Definitions for dyeings

noun

1. process of coloring fibers, yarns, or fabrics.
2. a coloring material or matter.
3. a liquid containing coloring matter, for imparting a particular hue to cloth, paper, etc.
4. color or hue, especially as produced by dyeing.

Idioms

1. of the deepest / blackest dye, of the most extreme or the worst sort:

verb (used with object)

1. to color or stain; treat with a dye; color (cloth, hair, etc.) with a substance containing coloring matter:
2. to impart (color) by means of a dye:

verb (used without object)

1. to impart color, as a dye:
2. to become colored or absorb color when treated with a dye:

Origin of dyeings

before 1000; Middle English; Old English dēagunge. See dye, -ing¹

Examples for dyeings

Then why not use the madder dye which we made for dyeing the flag?

Perhaps in dyeing, the lead and gamboge solutions might be worth a trial.

I shall have to take to dyeing my skin again, which is a nuisance, but it cannot be helped.

The week where Romney was accused of dyeing his face brown for a Univision interview?

I like the dyeing and the chemical part of the business; but what all these men said was Chinese to me.

Walnut bark makes the most permanent yellow dye for dyeing cloth of any of the vegetable substances used in this country.

It lay in a rosebush, dyeing the Abbot's roses a deeper red.

Silk may be dyed crimson, by steeping it in a solution of alum, and then dyeing it in the usual way in a cochineal bath.

The blood was running down his cheek and dyeing the whole side of his face.

“The Disney Look does not permit extremes in dyeing, bleaching or coloring,” the rules state.