dye

1. 1.

   color with dye

   “Please dye these shoes”

   Broaderdiscolor

   Narrowerbronzestaindeep-dyeimpressfast dyedouble dyehand-dyepiece-dye

Other forms of dye

plural

dyes·

past tense

dyed·

present participle

dying·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about dye

What does dye mean?

dye means "a usually soluble substance for staining or coloring e.g. fabrics or hair". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in dye?

dye has 1 syllable: dye. In IPA it is /ˈdaɪ/.

What is another word for dye?

Close synonyms include dyestuff. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is dye a common word?

dye is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with dye?

2 words rhyme with dye. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.