yellowing

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yellowing - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Yellow \Yel"low\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Yellowed; p. pr. & vb.
     n. Yellowing.]
     To make yellow; to cause to have a yellow tinge or color; to
     dye yellow.
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  Yellowing \Yel"low*ing\, n.
     The act or process of making yellow.
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           Softened . . . by the yellowing which time has given.
                                                    --G. Eliot.
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