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Bleach   /blitʃ/   Listen
Bleach

noun
1.
The whiteness that results from removing the color from something.
2.
An agent that makes things white or colorless.  Synonyms: blanching agent, bleaching agent, whitener.
3.
The act of whitening something by bleaching it (exposing it to sunlight or using a chemical bleaching agent).
verb
(past & past part. bleached; pres. part. bleaching)
1.
Remove color from.  Synonyms: bleach out, decolor, decolorise, decolorize, decolour, decolourise, decolourize, discolorise, discolorize, discolourise.
2.
Make whiter or lighter.



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"Bleach" Quotes from Famous Books



... pool where the lasses at daw'ing, Used to bleach their white garments wi' daffin and din; But the foam in the silence o' nature was fa'ing, And nae laughing rose loud through the roar ...
— The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume III - The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century • Various
... be glad to know if any of the readers of LITTLE FOLKS could tell them how to bleach grass ...
— Little Folks (December 1884) - A Magazine for the Young • Various
... dubenigra. Blacksmith forgxisto. Bladder veziko. Blade (grass) trunketo. Blade (knife) trancxanto. Blamable mallauxdinda. Blame mallauxdi. Blanch paligxi. Bland afabla. Blanket lankovrilo. Blaspheme blasfemi. Blast blovego. Blaze flamegi. Bleach blankigi. Bleat bleki. Bleed (trans.) sangeltiri. Bleed (intrans.) sangadi. Blemish makulo. Blend miksi. Bless beni. Blessing beno—ado. Blight velkigi. Blind blinda. Blind, window rulkurteno. Blindness blindeco. Blind-alley senelirejo. ...
— English-Esperanto Dictionary • John Charles O'Connor and Charles Frederic Hayes
... of minor events, as well as a busy one. I was so busy that I never sat down from 10:30 till 1:30. I had washed my one change of raiment, and though I never iron my clothes, I like to bleach them till they are as white as snow, and they were whitening on the line when some furious gusts came down from Long's Peak, against which I could not stand, and when I did get out all my clothes were blown into strips from an inch to four inches in width, literally destroyed! ...
— A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains • Isabella L. Bird
... intercourse with the Indians the white people were continually trampling upon their religion and their sacred rights. They were expected to look merely on while the graves of their fathers were robbed of their treasures, and the bones of their fathers were left to bleach upon the fields. And when exasperated by the brutality of their conquerors, and driven to deeds of vengence, there was very little appreciation of the motives which influenced them, and no attempt was ...
— Legends, Traditions, and Laws of the Iroquois, or Six Nations, and History of the Tuscarora Indians • Elias Johnson


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