Find your perfect word!

Definition dye

Etymology 1

From Middle English deie, from Old English d?ah, d?ag (“color, hue, dye”), from Proto-Germanic *daug? (“colour, shade”), from *daugan?, *dug- (“to conceal, be dark”), from Proto-Indo-European *d?ewh?- (“to smoke, raise dust, camouflage”). Cognate with Old High German tougan (“dark, secretive”), tougal (“dark, hidden, covert”), Old English d?agol, d?egle (“dark, hidden, secret”), Old English dohs, dox (“dusky, dark”). See dusk.

The verb is from Middle English deien, from Old English d?agian, from the noun.

Noun

dye (countable and uncountable, plural dyes)

1. A colourant, especially one that has an affinity to the substrate to which it is applied.
2. Any hue, color, or blee.

Verb

dye (third-person singular simple present dyes, present participle dyeing, simple past and past participle dyed)

1. (transitive) To colour with dye, or as if with dye.

Etymology 2

Noun

dye (plural dyce)

1. Alternative spelling of die (“singular of dice”)

Results 261 Words with the letters DYE

You can also try words with the phrase DYE, words starting with the letters DYE, or words ending in the letters DYE.

Favorites Searches

Words… ending with q, starting with q, starting with qa, starting with qo, with two letters, starting with x, starting with j, ending with j,

Some random searches: Words with the letters ZVU, Words with the letters RCICQ, Words with the letters NTCZA, Words with the letters WFO,