[
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)
-
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
-
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.
- 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.
- Prior to stratification, the seeds were surface-sterilized with dilute bleach for five minutes, followed by several thorough rinses with water.