bleach
/blit͡ʃ/ verb C2- To treat with bleach, especially so as to whiten (fabric, paper, etc.) or lighten (hair).
- To be whitened or lightened (by the sun, for example).
- 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.
- To make meaningless; to divest of meaning; to make empty. · semantically bleached words that have become illocutionary particles
He/she/it bleaches · Past bleached · Past participle bleached · -ing form bleaching
Verb forms
- Base form
- bleach
- He/she/it
- bleaches
- Past
- bleached
- Past participle
- bleached
- -ing form
- bleaching
From the library
It was bleached."
One could see that he had indeed been a handsome man with clear-cut features sunburned by an African sun, but mottled in patches over this darker surface were curious whitish patches which had bleached his skin.
Bleaching of the skin is a common result of the disease.
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