EMPURPLING Antonyms

• weakening in force or intensity

• descent of the uterus into the pelvic cavity that occurs late in pregnancy; the fetus is said to have dropped

• changing to a lighter color

• a fence made of upright pickets

• changing to a lighter color

• turn pale, as if in fear

• cook (vegetables) briefly

• the whiteness that results from removing the color from something

• an agent that makes things white or colorless

• the act of whitening something by bleaching it (exposing it to sunlight or using a chemical bleaching agent)

• cause to become white or lighter in color

• make whiter or lighter

• To remove the color from.

• To lose one’s color.

• To change or lose color.

• Discoloration

• make politically neutral and thus inoffensive

• make ineffective by counterbalancing the effect of

• oppose and mitigate the effects of by contrary actions

• get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing

• make incapable of military action

• make chemically neutral

• a United States unit of weight equivalent to 2000 pounds

• a British unit of weight equivalent to 2240 pounds