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bleached

bleach
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Transcription

    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • UK Pronunciation
    • UK IPA
    • [bleech]
    • /blitʃ/
    • /bliːtʃ/
    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • [bleech]
    • /blitʃ/

Definitions of bleached word

  • adjective bleached made lighter in colour 3
  • verb with object bleached to make whiter or lighter in color, as by exposure to sunlight or a chemical agent; remove the color from. 1
  • verb with object bleached Photography. to convert (the silver image of a negative or print) to a silver halide, either to remove the image or to change its tone. 1
  • verb without object bleached to become whiter or lighter in color. 1
  • noun bleached a bleaching agent. 1
  • noun bleached degree of paleness achieved in bleaching. 1

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Origin of bleached

First appearance:

before 1050
One of the 6% oldest English words
before 1050; Middle English blechen, Old English blǣcean, derivative of blāc pale; cognate with Old Norse bleikja, Old High German bleichēn

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Parts of speech for Bleached

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation

bleached popularity

A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 94% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
This word is included in each student's vocabulary. Most likely there is at least one movie with this word in the title.

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Synonyms for bleached

adj bleached

  • achromic — colourless
  • albino — An albino is a person or animal with very white skin, white hair, and pink eyes.
  • asher — the son of Jacob and ancestor of one of the 12 tribes of Israel
  • bilious — If someone describes the appearance of something as bilious, they mean that they think it looks unpleasant and rather disgusting.
  • blond — (of men's hair) of a light colour; fair

noun bleached

  • blonde — A woman who has blonde hair has pale-coloured hair. Blonde hair can be very light brown or light yellow. The form blond is used when describing men.
  • leucous — White; albino.

verb bleached

  • chalked — Simple past tense and past participle of chalk.
  • decolored — to remove the color from; deprive of color; bleach.
  • decolorized — Simple past tense and past participle of decolorize.

adjective bleached

  • colored — Something that is colored a particular color is that color.
  • coloured — Something that is coloured a particular colour is that colour.
  • colourless — Something that is colourless has no colour at all.
  • faded — to lose brightness or vividness of color.
  • faint — lacking brightness, vividness, clearness, loudness, strength, etc.: a faint light; a faint color; a faint sound.

Antonyms for bleached

verb bleached

  • badmouthed — Simple past tense and past participle of badmouth.
  • ebonized — Simple past tense and past participle of ebonize.

noun bleached

  • dyed — Coloured or tinted with dye.

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