With pasta or potatoes, the water is often starchy and with veg such as broccoli, the water can be "discoloured" from the veg itself - so not really suitable for washing stuff.    From Wordnik.com.  [AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed] Reference

If you leave it too long it will become discoloured.    From Wordnik.com.  [Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets] Reference

I would see that the boards were discoloured by the blood.    From Wordnik.com.  [Queen Victoria] Reference

They were old copies of great works, discoloured and damaged.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Path of a Star] Reference

Kills well with hackle when the water is slightly discoloured.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Teesdale Angler] Reference

Hence it turns green after a time, and becomes otherwise discoloured.    From Wordnik.com.  [Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists] Reference

His hands and long corded wrists looked discoloured against the sheet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Secret Bread] Reference

Should any black or discoloured particles appear, they must be removed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets] Reference

Placed on discoloured and shrivelled skin, it is marvellously curative.    From Wordnik.com.  [Papers on Health] Reference

"If we let it remain too long before the fire it will be burnt and discoloured.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Folks (July 1884) A Magazine for the Young] Reference

Her emaciated hand trembled; it looked almost discoloured in the uncertain light.    From Wordnik.com.  [Where Deep Seas Moan] Reference

If utensils have become discoloured or badly coated, they should be specially scoured.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Household Science in Rural Schools] Reference

It had a low, sloping roof, much discoloured with damp and dirt, as were also the walls.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Folks (Septemeber 1884) A Magazine for the Young] Reference

Bell drew a long tube of discoloured paper carefully tied round a stick from his pocket.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Crimson Blind] Reference

When exposed to light and air they soon become discoloured and are then unfit for cooking.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Culture of Vegetables and Flowers From Seeds and Roots 16th Edition] Reference

The mark of Sobrenski's grip on her wrist had turned from crimson to a dull discoloured hue.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hippodrome] Reference

Then, still in obedience to Archelaus, he slit the oil-silk and a few discoloured letters fell out.    From Wordnik.com.  [Secret Bread] Reference

If the swelling increases and becomes discoloured, keep to the hot treatment until it bursts and discharges.    From Wordnik.com.  [Papers on Health] Reference

Silver-gilt articles tend to get discoloured by use, but this discoloration can be removed by soap and water.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Laboratory Arts] Reference

Once he almost overturned his cup, then he blushed till his face was all discoloured, and bit his under lip savagely.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Silver Lining A Guernsey Story] Reference

He was ugly only because of great wrinkles that scored his cheeks and disfigured the fleshless face and discoloured skin.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Workingman's Paradise An Australian Labour Novel] Reference

It was toward the end of an afternoon in early April; the discoloured snow still lay huddled in the bleaker fence corners.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Imperialist] Reference

The knife, with its discoloured blade, was still in her possession, and the mystery about it remained entirely unexplained.    From Wordnik.com.  [Frank Oldfield Lost and Found] Reference

The whole upper arm was swollen and discoloured, while an indurated mass extended along the line of the vessels into the axilla.    From Wordnik.com.  [Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre] Reference

The former is the most lasting, but it is not durable in water, and still less so in oil, although not discoloured by impure air.    From Wordnik.com.  [Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists] Reference

There was a little discoloured spot about half way between the dado and the floor, and on this the doctor pressed a shaking thumb.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Slave of Silence] Reference

The ground was always of white satin, now faded and discoloured with age, and often torn with the heaviness of the beadwork design.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chats on Old Lace and Needlework] Reference

In Brazil the story is further varied, in that it is the sister who falls in love, and receives a discoloured face for her offence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Moon Lore] Reference

They are Polish Jews, and trade chiefly in pearls, garnets, turquoises, and a peculiar sort of ill-cut and discoloured rose-diamonds.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Tramp's Wallet stored by an English goldsmith during his wanderings in Germany and France] Reference

It is deepened in some degree by ammoniacal and impure air, and somewhat weakened, but not easily discoloured, by the action of light.    From Wordnik.com.  [Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists] Reference

The sight that met my eyes did indeed give evidence of something awful -- blood stains -- patches of dried semen, discoloured by blood.    From Wordnik.com.  [Forbidden Fruit Luscious and exciting story and More forbidden fruit or Master Percy's progress in and beyond the domestic circle] Reference

'His comrade was juist the opposite till him; foul he was, an' discoloured wi 'lust an' liquor -- mair like a haggis nor a human face ava.    From Wordnik.com.  [Border Ghost Stories] Reference

Whistles, whips, boats, all seemed to grow under his gnarled old hands, with their discoloured and broken nails, as though without effort.    From Wordnik.com.  [Secret Bread] Reference

In those days, we had open fires that discoloured the paintwork, and I was fascinated by the way she washed it with a solution of water and ammonia.    From Wordnik.com.  [Homes: Spick and span] Reference