variegate

From Late Latin variegare (“to make of various sorts or colors”), from Latin varius (“various”) + agere (“to make, do”).

variegate (third-person singular simple present variegates, present participle variegating, simple past and past participle variegated)

1. (transitive) to add variety to something; to diversify
2. (transitive) to change the appearance of something, especially by covering with patches or streaks of different colour
3. to dapple

• (to add variety): See also Thesaurus:diversify
• (to change the appearance of something): redecorate, remodel, reskin
• (to dapple): maculate, mottle, spot

• (to change the appearance of something): checker, freck (rare, poetic), streak

variegate (not comparable)

1. variegated

• variegate porphyria

• variegate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• variegate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• variegate at OneLook Dictionary Search

variegate

1. Feminine plural form of variegato

• reagivate

variegāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of variegō