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| bleached | |
| 1. adj. whitened; made white using bleach |  |
| Bleached cotton | |
| 2. adj. faded or washed out by weather and strong sunlight. | |
| 3. adj. Having the hair lightened by bleaching. | |
| bleach | |
| 1. adj. (archaic) Pale; bleak. | |
| 2. v. To treat with bleach, especially so as to whiten (fabric, paper, etc.) or lighten (hair). | |
| 3. v. (intransitive) To be whitened or lightened (by the sun, for example). | |
| 4. v. (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. | |
| 5. v. (transitive, figurative) To make meaningless; to divest of meaning; to make empty. | |
| semantically bleached words that have become illocutionary particles | |
| 6. n. A chemical, such as sodium hypochlorite or hydrogen peroxide, or a preparation of such a chemical, used for disinfecting or whitening. | |
| 7. n. A variety of bleach. | |
| 8. n. An act of bleaching; exposure to the sun. | |
| 9. n. A disease of the skin. | |
