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Definition bleach

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)

1. (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)

1. (transitive) To treat with bleach, especially so as to whiten (fabric, paper, etc.) or lighten (hair).
2. (intransitive) To be whitened or lightened (by the sun, for example).
3. (intransitive, biology, of corals) to lose color due to stress-induced expulsion of symbiotic unicellular algae.
4. (transitive, figuratively) To make meaningless; to divest of meaning; to make empty.

Noun

bleach (countable and uncountable, plural bleaches)

1. (uncountable) A chemical, such as sodium hypochlorite or hydrogen peroxide, or a preparation of such a chemical, used for disinfecting or whitening.
2. (countable) A variety of bleach.

Etymology 3

From Middle English bleche, from Old English bl??u, bl??o (“paleness, pallor”), from Proto-Germanic *blaik?? (“paleness”).

Noun

bleach (plural bleaches)

1. 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)

1. A disease of the skin.

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