Usually means: To darken tissue by pigmentation.
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  1. melanize: Merriam-Webster
  2. melanize: Collins English Dictionary
  3. melanize: Vocabulary.com
  4. melanize: Wordnik
  5. melanize: Wiktionary
  6. melanize: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  7. melanize: Dictionary.com
  8. melanize: Rhymezone
  9. melanize: FreeDictionary.org
  10. melanize: Mnemonic Dictionary
  11. melanize: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. melanize: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. melanize: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

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▸ verb:  (transitive) To convert into melanin, or to deposit melanin in.

Similar:
nigrify, blacken, black, melanise, eumelanize, bronzify, pigmentize, brownify, pigment, metallify, more...

Opposite:
decolorize, bleach, whiten, pale

Types:
blacken, darken, tan, brown, burn, more...

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Similar:
nigrify, blacken, black, melanise, eumelanize, bronzify, pigmentize, brownify, pigment, metallify, more...

Opposite:
decolorize, bleach, whiten, pale

Types:
blacken, darken, tan, brown, burn, more...



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