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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



... the night they gave him a pang of fright, and he was sorry his grandma had decided to let them bleach in the dew of the June woods. From his bed in the carriage he could see both the road and the lines of clothes. A horseman came along the road and halted. He was not attracted by the camp-fire, because that had died to ashes. He probably would not have heard the horses stamp in their ...
— Old Caravan Days • Mary Hartwell Catherwood
... I am almost an old woman now." She made marks abstractedly upon the corner of a piece of paper. "Unless my hair turns grey presently I must bleach it, for 'twill seem improper it should ...
— The Judgment House • Gilbert Parker
... something?" The first fairy said: "I will enable him to spin as much flax in a night as he touches." The second said: "I will enable him to weave in a night as much yarn as he has spun." The third said: "I will enable him to bleach all the linen he has woven in one night." Giufa heard this and at night when his mother had gone to bed, he got behind her stock of flax, and as often as he touched a skein it was at once spun. When the flax was ...
— Italian Popular Tales • Thomas Frederick Crane
... lamenting the lost child, which, to Madge's fancy, is now dead, now living in a dream. But the gloom that hangs about Muschat's Cairn, the ghastly vision of "crying up Ailie Muschat, and she and I will hae a grand bouking-washing, and bleach our claise in the beams of the bonny Lady Moon," have a terror beyond the German, and are unexcelled by Webster or by Ford. "But the moon, and the dew, and the night-wind, they are just like a caller kail-blade laid on my brow; ...
— The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Complete, Illustrated • Sir Walter Scott
... nothing. But how? It did not take long for Perritaut pere to settle that question. Voila tout. The young men should seek white wives. They had money. They might marry poor girls, but white ones. But the girls? Eh bien! Money should wash them also, or at least money should bleach their descendants. For money is the Great Stain-eraser, the Mighty Detergent, the Magic Cleanser. And the stain of race is not the only one that money makes white as snow. So the old gentleman one day remarked to some friends who drank wine with him, that he would geeve one ten tousant tollare, ...
— The Mystery of Metropolisville • Edward Eggleston


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