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bleach
[ bleech ]
verb (used with object)
- to make whiter or lighter in color, such as by exposure to sunlight or a chemical agent; remove the color from:
Do you think she bleaches her hair?
- to cause (coral) to undergo a loss of color that indicates declining health: caused by a loss of the algae that normally live symbiotically in the coral’s tissues:
In sufficient concentrations, the chemicals in certain sunscreens can bleach coral.
- Photography. to convert (the silver image of a negative or print) to a silver halide, either to remove the image or to change its tone.
verb (used without object)
- to become whiter or lighter in color:
The grass in the fields gradually bleached as winter approached, leaving the landscape pale and drab.
- (of coral) to undergo a loss of color that indicates declining health: caused by a loss of the algae that normally live symbiotically in the coral’s tissues:
Coral reefs are bleaching due to ocean pollution and rising sea temperatures.
noun
- a bleaching agent.
- an act of bleaching.
- degree of paleness achieved in bleaching.
bleach
/ bliːtʃ /
verb
- to make or become white or colourless, as by exposure to sunlight, by the action of chemical agents, etc
noun
- a bleaching agent
- the degree of whiteness resulting from bleaching
- the act of bleaching
bleach
/ blēch /
- A chemical agent used to whiten or remove color from textiles, paper, food, and other substances and materials. Chlorine, sodium hypochlorite, and hydrogen peroxide are bleaches. Bleaches remove color by oxidation or reduction.
Derived Forms
- ˈbleacher, noun
- ˈbleachable, adjective
Other Words From
- bleach·a·ble adjective
- bleach·a·bil·i·ty [blee-ch, uh, -, bil, -i-tee], noun
- half-bleached adjective
- non·bleach noun
- o·ver·bleach verb
- re·bleach verb
- sem·i·bleached adjective
- un·bleached adjective
- un·bleach·ing adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of bleach1
Word History and Origins
Origin of bleach1
Synonym Study
Example Sentences
If you’re still waiting to have enough clothes for a load of laundry, or simply do not feel like waiting for water to boil, Noble suggests soaking your face masks for five minutes in a solution of one teaspoon of bleach for every quart of hot water.
When Chipotle lost workers during the pandemic and Stark was pushed harder and harder, cleaning and sanitizing the restaurant with bleach by herself, she got fed up and quit in October.
Color developers use bleach to wash the silver off of the film and the color itself comes from dyes instead.
Characters are often given opportunities for rebellion in the face of corporate wrongdoing, and there are many shenanigans in this vein involving bleach, dead fish, and fuel canisters.
Talking up bleach while discouraging masking, Calling Ukraine for corrupt-favor-asking, Giving the Proud Boys a wet sloppy kiss, These are some more of the things I don’t miss.
Of course, in her Neverland they bleach your teeth so white they glow and Madonna coaches you on your convincing British accent.
The country needs ambulances, bleach, hand sanitizer, medical supplies.
Supplies of soap, bleach, or alcohol-based hand gel also were depleted.
Dead bodies were to be covered in bleach, and typical burial rites of kissing and touching ignored.
Bodies were covered with bleach and buried, and isolation huts burned.
Some of the half-made hay in the meadows looks as though it had been standing out to bleach for the last fortnight.
Should it not be rendered white by these means, lay the dress in the open air, and bleach it for several days.
Many larv turn black in alcohol, but boiling them in alcohol in a test tube will bleach them.
It was the only sign she had given thus far that she had earned her white hair by age, and not by a bleach.
His bones will bleach on the plain, and his scalp adorn the shield of an Indian chief, or the mane of his horse.
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