colorate means to apply color to something; to make colorful.
Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, colorate ranks #1,386 of 25,264 for Qualifying.
colorate is pronounced /ˈkʌləɹeɪt/.
Etymology
From Latin colōrātus, past participle of colōrō (“to color”). Equivalent to color + -ate (adjective-froming suffix)
verb
- To apply color to something; to make colorful.
adj
- Colored.“had the tunicles and humours of the eye , all , or any of them , been colorate , many of the rays proceeding from the viſible object would have been stopped and ſuffocated before they could come to the bottom”