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bleach

noun

1 bleach

The whiteness that results from removing the color from something.

2 bleach

An agent that makes things white or colorless.

synonyms: blanching agent, bleaching agent, whitener.

Dutch: bleekmiddel, witmaker
Polish: wybielacz

3 bleach

The act of whitening something by bleaching it (exposing it to sunlight or using a chemical bleaching agent).

Polish: wybielanie siÄ™

verb

1 bleach

Remove color from:
— The sun bleached the red shirt.

synonyms: bleach out, decolor, decolorise, decolorize, decolour, decolourise, decolourize, discolorise, discolorize, discolourise.

Roget 429: lose color etc. 428; fade, fly, go; become colorless etc. adj.; turn pale, pale.    deprive of color, decolorize, bleach, ... show more

Roget 430: be white etc. adj.. render white etc. adj.; whiten, bleach, blanch, etiolate, whitewash, silver.   

2 bleach

Make whiter or lighter.


Moby thesaurus: achromatization, achromatize, besnow, blanch, blanching, bleach out, bleacher, bleaching, bleaching agent, bleaching powder, blench, bowdlerize, chalk, change color, chlorine, clean, clean out, clean up, cleanse, clear out ... show more.

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