Hypertext Webster Gateway: "bleach"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Bleach \Bleach\, v. i.
To grow white or lose color; to whiten.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Bleach \Bleach\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Bleached}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Bleaching}.] [OE. blakien, blechen, v. t. & v. i., AS.
bl[=a]cian, bl?can, to grow pale; akin to Icel. bleikja, Sw.
bleka, Dan. blege, D. bleeken, G. bleichen, AS. bl[=a]c pale.
See {Bleak}, a.]
To make white, or whiter; to remove the color, or stains,
from; to blanch; to whiten.
The destruction of the coloring matters attached to the
bodies to be bleached is effected either by the action
of the air and light, of chlorine, or of sulphurous
acid. --Ure.
Immortal liberty, whose look sublime Hath bleached the
tyrant's cheek in every varying clime. --Smollett.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
bleach
n 1: the whiteness that results from removing the color from
something; "a complete bleach usually requires several
applications"
2: an agent that makes things white or colorless [syn: {bleaching
agent}, {blanching agent}, {whitener}]
3: the act of whitening something by bleaching it (exposing it
to sunlight or using a chemical bleaching agent)
v 1: remove color from; "The sun bleached the red shirt" [syn: {bleach
out}, {decolor}, {decolour}, {decolorize}, {decolourize},
{decolorise}, {decolourise}, {discolorize}, {discolourise},
{discolorise}]
2: make whiter or lighter; "bleach the laundry"
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