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He changes colour and sounds dreadful (4)

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I believe the answer is:

dyer

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'he changes colour' is the definition.
The answer is a person as well as being a singular noun. This is suggested by the definition.

'sounds dreadful' is the wordplay.
'sounds' indicates a 'sounds like' (homophone) clue.
'dreadful' becomes 'dire' (synonyms).
'dire' is a homophone of 'DYER'.

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(Other definitions for dyer that I've seen before include "Person colouring cloth" , "Colour-changer" , "Cloth worker" , "Adder of colour" , "One colouring cloth" .)

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