Bleach

Quick meaning: Bleach is a noun meaning (countable) A variety of bleach.

Meaning

(countable) A variety of bleach.

More Meanings

1. (transitive) To treat with bleach, especially so as to whiten (fabric, paper, etc.) or lighten (hair).
2. (intransitive) To be whitened or lightened (by the sun, for example).
3. (intransitive, biology, of corals) To lose color due to stress-induced expulsion of symbiotic unicellular algae.
4. (transitive, figurative) To make meaningless; to divest of meaning; to make empty.
5. An act of bleaching; exposure to the sun.
6. (uncountable) A chemical, such as sodium hypochlorite or hydrogen peroxide, or a preparation of such a chemical, used for disinfecting or whitening.
7. (archaic) Pale; bleak.

Example Sentences

semantically bleached words that have become illocutionary particles

Candifacio, to make whyte, to bleache, to make to glowe lyke a burnyng cole.

The white sheet bleaching on the hedge, With heigh! the sweet birds, O, how they sing!

Once coral bleaching begins, corals tend to continue to bleach even if the stressor is removed.

Word Forms

• bleaches
• bleaching
• bleached
• bleacher
• bleachest

Synonyms for bleach

Depending on context, synonyms include blanch, whitewash, decolorize, decolor, whitener.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include decolor, decolorize, whitener, etiolate, breach, disinfectant.

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