To color, dye, or tint something; to give color to something.
From 'en-' + 'color' (from Old French 'color,' from Latin 'color'). The verb form emerged as writers needed to describe the action of adding color in the 16th-17th centuries.
Before 'colorize' was invented, writers used 'encolor' to poetically describe painting, dyeing, or even how emotions 'encolored' a scene with meaning.
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