tie-dyeverb [ T ]
uk/ˈtaɪ.daɪ/us/ˈtaɪ.daɪ/present participle tie-dyeing, past tense and past participle tie-dyedto colour cloth by tying it in knots so that when it is put in a dye (= substance for changing the colour of cloth) the tied areas absorb less colour and produce circular patterns when unfastened:
There are pictures of my grandparents in the 60s wearing flares and tie-dyed T-shirts.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Colour - general words
- chromatic
- color wheel
- colored
- colour
- colour wheel
- coloured
- coloured
- discolour
- dye
- high-visibility
- pigment
- pigmentation
- run
- spectral
- spectrum
- stain
- tinge
- tinted
- tone
- tone in
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