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 się
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.
bleaching
Moby thesaurus: achromatization, albification, blanching, bleach, decoloration, decolorization, decolorizing, discoloration, etiolation, fading, frosting, grizzling, lightening, madder bleach, market bleach, paling, silvering, whitening, whitewashing.
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