bleach has definitions from the field of color
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[ noun ] (color) the whiteness that results from removing the color from something

Examples

"a complete bleach usually requires several applications"

Related terms

white

2
[ verb ] (color) remove color from

Examples

"The sun bleached the red shirt"

Used in print

(Stephen Longstreet, Eagles Where I Walk....)

New_York lay bleaching in the summer sun , and the morning fish_hawk , flying in the heated air , saw below him the long triangular wedge of Manhattan_Island .

Related terms

discolor

3
[ verb ] (color) make whiter or lighter

Examples

"bleach the laundry"

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[ noun ] (color) the act of whitening something by bleaching it (exposing it to sunlight or using a chemical bleaching agent)

Related terms

whitening etiolation

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