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Bleach   /blitʃ/   Listen
Bleach

noun
1.
The whiteness that results from removing the color from something.
2.
An agent that makes things white or colorless.  Synonyms: blanching agent, bleaching agent, whitener.
3.
The act of whitening something by bleaching it (exposing it to sunlight or using a chemical bleaching agent).
verb
(past & past part. bleached; pres. part. bleaching)
1.
Remove color from.  Synonyms: bleach out, decolor, decolorise, decolorize, decolour, decolourise, decolourize, discolorise, discolorize, discolourise.
2.
Make whiter or lighter.



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"Bleach" Quotes from Famous Books



... and west on fields forgotten Bleach the bones of comrades slain, Lovely lads and dead and rotten; None ...
— A Shropshire Lad • A. E. Housman
... own its heav'nly kind: Nor death itself can wholly wash their stains; But long-contracted filth ev'n in the soul remains. The relics of inveterate vice they wear, And spots of sin obscene in ev'ry face appear. For this are various penances enjoin'd; And some are hung to bleach upon the wind, Some plung'd in waters, others purg'd in fires, Till all the dregs are drain'd, and all the rust expires. All have their manes, and those manes bear: The few, so cleans'd, to these abodes repair, And breathe, in ample fields, the soft Elysian air. Then are they happy, ...
— The Aeneid • Virgil
... reproduce this condition by artificial means. As a consequence rushes were cut and soaked in water. They were then peeled, leaving lengths of pith partially supported by threads of the skin which were not stripped off. These sticks of pith were placed in the sun to bleach and to dry, and after they were thoroughly dry they were dipped in scalding grease, which was saved from cooking operations or was otherwise acquired for the purpose. A reed two or three feet long held in the splinter-holder would burn for about an hour. Thus it is seen that man was beginning ...
— Artificial Light - Its Influence upon Civilization • M. Luckiesh
... my verses in the wind, Time and tide their faults may find; All were winnowed through and through, Five lines lasted good and true ... Sunshine cannot bleach the snow, Nor time unmake what poets know. Have you eyes to find the five Which five hundred ...
— The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (The Physician and Poet not the Jurist)
... time I shall bleach that garment you are wearing. For I take the color out of all things. Thus you see these stuffs here, as they are now. Clotho spun the glowing threads, and Lachesis wove them, as you observe, in curious patterns, ...
— Jurgen - A Comedy of Justice • James Branch Cabell


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