bleach : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: bleach	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for bleach
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
bleach n the whiteness that results from removing the color from something; "a complete bleach usually requires several applications" an agent that makes things white or colorless Synonym(s): bleaching agent, bleach, blanching agent, whitener the act of whitening something by bleaching it (exposing it to sunlight or using a chemical bleaching agent) v remove color from; "The sun bleached the red shirt" [syn: bleach, bleach out, decolor, decolour, decolorize, decolourize, decolorise, decolourise, discolorize, discolourise, discolorise] make whiter or lighter; "bleach the laundry"
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[be]cian, bl[?]can, to grow pale; akin to Icel. bleikja, Sw. bleka, Dan. blege, D. bleeken, G. bleichen, AS. bl[be]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.