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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



... my youth. I told myself that treasure-hunting was an enterprise accursed of God, and that I should most likely die. That Laputa and Henriques would die I was fully certain. The three of us would leave our bones to bleach among the diamonds, and in a little the Prester's collar would glow amid a little heap of human dust. I was quite convinced of all this, and quite apathetic. It really did not matter so long as I came up with Laputa and Henriques, and settled scores with them. That mattered ...
— Prester John • John Buchan
... 'rise and fall of seasons' suits the rise and fall of rhyme, But we know that western seasons do not run on schedule time; For the drought will go on drying while there's anything to dry, Then it rains until you'd fancy it would bleach the sunny sky — Then it pelters out of reason, for the downpour day and night Nearly sweeps the population to the Great Australian Bight. It is up in Northern Queensland that the seasons do their best, But it's doubtful if ...
— In the Days When the World Was Wide and Other Verses • Henry Lawson
... to yield it to its own element, and in the same action luring it away, until, tired of the ugly plaything, it flung it on a swamp—a dismal place where pirates had swung in chains through many a wintry night—and left it there to bleach. ...
— The Old Curiosity Shop • Charles Dickens
... hair!" quoth the abigail, in an under tone, as if she were merely holding a sociable chat with herself—"for all the world like skeins of golden thread; and what a fair skin! just like a heap of snow, or a newly washed sheet spread out to bleach. Patience alive! this pretty arm beats Mrs. Swelby's wax-work all hollow; ...
— Venus in Boston; - A Romance of City Life • George Thompson
... trusted that, after all, I had not been put away here for long. Maybe a few days of fever and delirium would waste the hands and bleach out the brown stain of sunburn. At the moment, though I was young, and had been strong, I would have no chance against even an old man; but if I ate, and could crawl up to take a little exercise, a day or two ought to ...
— The Car of Destiny • C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson


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