"Drained of color" nghĩa là gì?

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"Drained of color" có từ drain là kiệt quệ -> cụm từ nay nghĩa là tái mét, nhợt nhạt, xanh xám.

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Martha’s cheeks (má) all but drained of color and her lips were bloodless. “You never go into those woods, you hear? There’s evil in them.”

Charge: Bloomington man's face 'drained of color' when confronted (đương đầu) about wife's stabbing death. The two had been shouting at each just before the attack, according to the criminal complaint.

Meanwhile, outside the compound, the familiar Bay Area environs (vùng lân cận) seem drained of color, with lifeless grays, off-whites, and beiges (màu be), like a laboratory cityscape, an urban maze for test-subject mice.

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