bleach
to make whiter or lighter in color, as by exposure to sunlight or a chemical agent; remove the color from.
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.
to become whiter or lighter in color.
a bleaching agent.
degree of paleness achieved in bleaching.
an act of bleaching.
Origin of bleach
1synonym study For bleach
Other words from bleach
- bleach·a·ble, adjective
- bleach·a·bil·i·ty, 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
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How to use bleach in a sentence
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.
How to sanitize a face mask safely and easily | Sandra Gutierrez G. | August 26, 2021 | Popular-ScienceWhen 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.
Hourly Workers Are Demanding Better Pay and Benefits—and Getting Them | Alana Semuels | July 22, 2021 | TimeColor developers use bleach to wash the silver off of the film and the color itself comes from dyes instead.
Watch this picture-perfect video on how camera film works | Purbita Saha | July 21, 2021 | Popular-ScienceCharacters 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.
‘Site Fidelity’ Explores Why We Fight for the Places We Love | smurguia | July 16, 2021 | Outside OnlineTalking 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.
Style Invitational Week 1444: It’s a whole new all-game — name a sport | Pat Myers | July 7, 2021 | Washington Post
Of course, in her Neverland they bleach your teeth so white they glow and Madonna coaches you on your convincing British accent.
‘Peter Pan Live!’ Review: No Amount of Clapping Brings It to Life | Kevin Fallon | December 5, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe country needs ambulances, bleach, hand sanitizer, medical supplies.
Live from San Antonio: Women in the World Texas! | Women in the World | October 23, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTSupplies 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.
Glances at Europe | Horace GreeleyShould it not be rendered white by these means, lay the dress in the open air, and bleach it for several days.
The Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness | Florence HartleyMany larv turn black in alcohol, but boiling them in alcohol in a test tube will bleach them.
Directions for Collecting and Preserving Insects | C. V. RileyIt was the only sign she had given thus far that she had earned her white hair by age, and not by a bleach.
What Will People Say? | Rupert HughesHis bones will bleach on the plain, and his scalp adorn the shield of an Indian chief, or the mane of his horse.
The Pirates of the Prairies | Gustave Aimard
British Dictionary definitions for bleach
/ (bliːtʃ) /
to make or become white or colourless, as by exposure to sunlight, by the action of chemical agents, etc
a bleaching agent
the degree of whiteness resulting from bleaching
the act of bleaching
Origin of bleach
1Derived forms of bleach
- bleachable, adjective
- bleacher, noun
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Scientific definitions for 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.
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