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bleach
English
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -i?t?
Etymology 1
From Middle English bleche (also bleke), from Old English bl??, bl?c, variants of bl?c (“bright, shining, glittering, flashing; bleak, pale, pallid, wan, livid”), from Proto-Germanic *blaikaz (“pale, shining”). More at bleak.
Adjective
bleach (comparative bleacher or more bleach, superlative bleachest or most bleach)
- (archaic) Pale; bleak.
Etymology 2
From Middle English blechen, from Old English bl??an (“to bleach, whiten”), from Proto-Germanic *blaikijan?, from Proto-Indo-European *b?el- (“to shine”). Cognate with Dutch bleken (“to bleach”), German bleichen (“to bleach”), Danish blege, Swedish bleka (“to bleach”). Related to Old English bl?c (“pale”) (English blake; compare also bleak).
Verb
bleach (third-person singular simple present bleaches, present participle bleaching, simple past and past participle bleached)
- (transitive) To treat with bleach, especially so as to whiten (fabric, paper, etc.) or lighten (hair).
- 1538, Thomas Elyot, The Dictionary of Syr Thomas Eliot Knyght, London: Thomas Berthelet,[1]
- Candifacio, to make whyte, to bleache, to make to glowe lyke a burnyng cole.
- 1774, Tobias Smollett, Independence: An Ode, London: J. Murray, p. 8,[2]
- Immortal liberty, whose look sublime
- Hath bleach’d the Tyrant’s Cheek in every varying Clime.
- 1830, Andrew Ure, A Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines, London: Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longmans, “BLEACHING,” p. 128,[3]
- The destruction of the colouring matters attached to the bodies to be bleached is effected either by the action of the air and light, of chlorine, or of sulphurous acid.
- 1538, Thomas Elyot, The Dictionary of Syr Thomas Eliot Knyght, London: Thomas Berthelet,[1]
- (intransitive) To be whitened or lightened (by the sun, for example).
- c. 1610, William Shakespeare, The Winter’s Tale, Act IV, Scene 3,[4]
- The white sheet bleaching on the hedge,
- With heigh! the sweet birds, O, how they sing!
- 1871, Louisa May Alcott, Little Men, Chapter 15,[5]
- […] when Mrs. Giddy-gaddy came to take out her clothes, deep green stains appeared on every thing, for she had forgotten the green silk lining of a certain cape, and its color had soaked nicely into the pink and blue gowns, the little chemises, and even the best ruffled petticoat. […] “Lay them on the grass to bleach,” said Daisy, with an air of experience.
- 1927, Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse, London: The Hogarth Press, 1920, Part 2, p. 198,[6]
- The autumn trees, ravaged as they are, take on the flash of tattered flags kindling in the gloom of cool cathedral caves where gold letters on marble pages describe death in battle and how bones bleach and burn far away in Indian sands.
- c. 1610, William Shakespeare, The Winter’s Tale, Act IV, Scene 3,[4]
- (intransitive, biology, of corals) to lose color due to stress-induced expulsion of symbiotic unicellular algae.
- Once coral bleaching begins, corals tend to continue to bleach even if the stressor is removed.
- (transitive, figuratively) To make meaningless; to divest of meaning; to make empty.
- semantically bleached words that have become illocutionary particles
Synonyms
- blanch
Translations
Noun
bleach (countable and uncountable, plural bleaches)
- (uncountable) A chemical, such as sodium hypochlorite or hydrogen peroxide, or a preparation of such a chemical, used for disinfecting or whitening.
- (countable) A variety of bleach.
Derived terms
- bleachfield
Translations
Etymology 3
From Middle English bleche, from Old English bl??u, bl??o (“paleness, pallor”), from Proto-Germanic *blaik?? (“paleness”).
Noun
bleach (plural bleaches)
- An act of bleaching; exposure to the sun.
Etymology 4
From Middle English bleche, from Old English bl??e (“irritation of the skin, leprosy; psoriasis”).
Noun
bleach (plural bleaches)
- A disease of the skin.
Anagrams
- Blecha, balche, balché
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whitening
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?wa?tn???/, /?wa?tn??/
- (without the wine–whine merger) IPA(key): /?hwa?tn???/, /?hwa?tn??/
- Hyphenation: whit?en?ing
Verb
whitening
- present participle of whiten
Noun
whitening (countable and uncountable, plural whitenings)
- A substance, such as a bleach, used to make something white or whiter.
- Whiting, a kind of fine white chalk.
- The process of making something white or whiter.
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