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UK
/blˈiːtʃt/
]
[ US /ˈbɫitʃt/ ]
[ US /ˈbɫitʃt/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
having lost freshness or brilliance of color
faded jeans
sun-bleached deck chairs
washy colors
a very pale washed-out blue -
(used of color) artificially produced; not natural
a bleached blonde
How To Use bleached In A Sentence
- There is a great deal of controversy over the merits of bleached and unbleached flour.
- Facing him across the bleached wooden plank, Melissa became aware of an extraordinary change in his manner.
- 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
- We follow the tracks across the cracked mudflats, out past the sunken pilings now exposed and bleached by sun, to the deepest channel turned fetid pond. Three Prayers for Rain
- Over each, now, a wooden shelter was in place, already bleached by the sun.
- The city was perched on its barren, hot rock, with scarcely a drop of water, and its inhabitants must often have been tempted to wish that there had been running down the sun-bleached bed of the Kedron a flashing stream, such as laved the rock-cut temples and tombs of Thebes. Expositions of Holy Scripture Isaiah and Jeremiah
- He wears a long, white cotton thobe, bleached and pressed to a dazzling crispness, and a red-checked ghutra headdress held in place by the black agal headband, the wool cord once used by the Bedouins to hobble their camels. Richard Bangs: Bahrain: Once Was Paradise
- At intervals, the double-height spaces are penetrated by the diagrid structure, bleached white like dinosaur ribs.
- The needles were bleached with a 4% sodium hypochloride solution which macerates the mesophyll, and vascular and epidermal tissue were brushed off.
- Searching out the bleached bones of the image we found instead flesh unexpressed by light.