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US
/ˈbɫitʃ/
]
[ UK /blˈiːtʃ/ ]
[ UK /blˈiːtʃ/ ]
NOUN
- the act of whitening something by bleaching it (exposing it to sunlight or using a chemical bleaching agent)
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the whiteness that results from removing the color from something
a complete bleach usually requires several applications - an agent that makes things white or colorless
VERB
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make whiter or lighter
bleach the laundry -
remove color from
The sun bleached the red shirt
How To Use bleach In A Sentence
- There is a great deal of controversy over the merits of bleached and unbleached flour.
- There are six of them in total, one hundred and fifty foot tall totemic spires of Growth Bone, Calcine, and Blossom Glass, bedecked on all sides with terraces, platforms and loggias, sun-bleached and standing to attention like nine pins spilt upon the desert or deep sea hydro-thermal vents rising from unfathomed depths. Watchman: Babel Series Part One | SciFi UK Review
- How much bleach and chemicals? Times, Sunday Times
- This nascent bleach can also react with primary or secondary amines to form longer lasting, antimicrobial chloramines.
- I could still detect the faint smell of bleach.
- She was forced to scrub floors with bleach. The Sun
- Facing him across the bleached wooden plank, Melissa became aware of an extraordinary change in his manner.
- If the hair is fairly fine and downy, either on the upper lip or the cheeks, then bleaching is by far the best solution.
- Beneath, where even in August noonday, the sun cannot find its way by a chink, and babies lie stark naked in the cavernous shade, Allen Street presents a sort of submarine and greenish gloom, as if its humanity were actually moving through a sea of aqueous shadows, faces rather bleached and shrunk from sunlessness as water can bleach and shrink. Humoresque A Laugh on Life with a Tear Behind It
- Mold can be cleaned off surfaces with a weak bleach solution.
