noun
- The whiteness that results from removing the color from something.
- usage: "a complete bleach usually requires several applications"
- An agent that makes things white or colorless.
- synonyms: bleaching agent, blanching agent, whitener
- The act of whitening something by bleaching it (exposing it to sunlight or using a chemical bleaching agent. )
verb
- Remove color from.
- usage: "The sun bleached the red shirt"
- synonyms: bleach out, decolor, decolour, decolorize, decolourize, decolorise, decolourise, discolorize, discolourise, discolorise
- Make whiter or lighter.
- usage: "bleach the laundry"
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