dye

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   To change the color of something, such as hair or cloth, using a colored liquid.

   You look different. Have you dyed your hair?

2. 2
   noun

   A substance used to give color to hair, cloth, or other materials.

   She used a blue dye to color the old curtains.

Common collocations

• dye hair Verb + noun

From Middle English deye, from Old English dēah, dēag (“color, hue, dye”), from Proto-West Germanic *daugu (“color, shade”), from *daugan (“to conceal, be dark”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewh₂- (“to smoke, raise dust, camouflage”). Cognates Cognate with Old High German tougan (“dark, secretive”), tougal (“dark, hidden, covert”), Old English dēagol, dīegle (“dark, hidden, secret”), Old English dohs, dox (“dusky, dark”). See dusk.

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