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bleach

/blit͡ʃ/ verbo C2

En español: blanquear, curar, decolorar, oxigenar

  1. To treat with bleach, especially so as to whiten (fabric, paper, etc.) or lighten (hair). (transitive)
  2. To be whitened or lightened (by the sun, for example). (intransitive)
  3. To lose color due to stress-induced expulsion of symbiotic unicellular algae. (intransitive) · Once coral bleaching begins, corals tend to continue to bleach even if the stressor is removed.
  4. To make meaningless; to divest of meaning; to make empty. (figuratively, transitive) · semantically bleached words that have become illocutionary particles

He/she/it bleaches · Pasado bleached · Participio pasado bleached · Forma en -ing bleaching

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Forma base
bleach
He/she/it
bleaches
Pasado
bleached
Participio pasado
bleached
Forma en -ing
bleaching

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It was bleached."
The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes, p. 17 · B2
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.
The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes, p. 20 · B2
Bleaching of the skin is a common result of the disease.
The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes, p. 27 · B2

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