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bleach

bleach

2 2.7
The act of making something lighter in color, often with chemicals
  • noun
  • /bliːtʃ/
translation icon : decoloración
  • The processing is in three stages—developer, bleach, and fix with a wash between the developer and the bleach.
  • bleach hair
  • bleach white
  • bleach blond

It's just a long sleeve long T-shirt dress by weekday with tie dye like bleaching on it.

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Examples

  • The artist used a strong bleach to lighten the canvas before painting.

  • Hair bleach causes cancer in rats.

  • No, that's just too much bleach in their clothes.

  • The stones are brilliant white in the afternoon sun, scrubbed weekly with bleach and water.

    Fiction book (1992)
  • PHOTO (BLACK & WHITE): Bottom right: When water temperatures get too high, corals lose the symbiotic algae inside them, causing them to turn white or "bleach" and eventually die.

    Academic text (2003)
  • Many people rely on bleach to remove stains from their clothing.

  • Using bleach can safely restore the bright white color of fabrics.

Synonyms

whitening
vsbleach
10 3.6

Making skin, clothes, or teeth lighter in color

removes color to make completely white, often using chemicals or sunlight

Antonyms

113 3.2

To put color on something to change how it looks

63 3.3

Make or become less bright, for example a room

Compounds

bleach liquor
  • Specialized
7.0

A strong liquid that makes cloth or paper whiter

A strong liquid used on clothes or surfaces to make them white and kill germs

mind bleach
  • Slang
9.8

Something that helps you forget a bad memory or picture

How White

bleach
2 2.7
whitening
10 3.6
lightening
1 5.0
fading
1 3.0

Surface Forms

bleach singular
bleaches plural

Etymology

Bleach comes from the old English root blāc meaning 'pale' or 'white' and is related to blank. So a bleach can mean the process or the result of making something whiter or removing its color.