bleach
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Synonyms: breach, blench, leach, blech, beach, pleach, bletch, bleech, blach, bleich
Antonyms: breach, blench, leach, blech, beach, pleach, bletch, bleech, blach, bleich
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Noun
- A chemical, such as sodium hypochlorite or hydrogen peroxide, or a preparation of such a chemical, used for disinfecting or whitening.
- A variety of bleach.
Verb
- To treat with bleach, especially so as to whiten (fabric, paper, etc.) or lighten (hair).
- To be whitened or lightened (by the sun, for example).
- To lose color due to stress-induced expulsion of symbiotic unicellular algae.
- Once coral bleaching begins, corals tend to continue to bleach even if the stressor is removed.
- To make meaningless; to divest of meaning; to make empty.
- semantically bleached words that have become illocutionary particles
Noun
- An act of bleaching; exposure to the sun.
Adjective
- Pale; bleak.
Noun
- A disease of the skin characterized by hypopigmentation and itching, believed in the 17th century to be a form of leprosy.
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