ALL meanings of bleach
bleach
B b - verb bleach If you bleach something, you use a chemical to make it white or pale in colour. 3
- verb bleach If the sun bleaches something, or something bleaches, its colour gets paler until it is almost white. 3
- variable noun bleach Bleach is a chemical that is used to make cloth white, or to clean things thoroughly and kill germs. 3
- verb bleach to make or become white or colourless, as by exposure to sunlight, by the action of chemical agents, etc 3
- noun bleach a bleaching agent 3
- noun bleach the degree of whiteness resulting from bleaching 3
- noun bleach the act of bleaching 3
- verb transitive bleach to remove color from by means of chemicals or by exposure to the sun's rays 3
- verb transitive bleach to whiten; blanch 3
- intransitive verb bleach to become white, colorless, or pale 3
- noun bleach a bleaching or whitening 3
- noun bleach any substance used for bleaching 3
- noun bleach cleaning product 1
- noun bleach hair-lightening product 1
- transitive verb bleach clean, whiten: washing 1
- transitive verb bleach remove colour from 1
- noun bleach act of bleaching sth 1
- verb with object bleach to make whiter or lighter in color, as by exposure to sunlight or a chemical agent; remove the color from. 1
- verb with object bleach 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 bleach to become whiter or lighter in color. 1
- noun bleach a bleaching agent. 1
- noun bleach degree of paleness achieved in bleaching. 1
- noun bleach an act of bleaching. 1
- noun bleach (Uncountable Noun) A chemical, such as sodium hypochlorite or hydrogen peroxide, or a preparation of such a chemical, used for disinfecting or whitening. 0
- noun bleach (Countable Noun) A variety of bleach. 0
- noun bleach An act of bleaching; exposure to the sun. 0
- noun bleach A disease of the skin. 0
- verb bleach (Transitive Verb) To treat with bleach, especially so as to whiten (fabric, paper, etc.) or lighten (hair). 0
- verb bleach (Intransitive Verb) (biology, of corals) to lose color due to stress-induced expulsion of symbiotic unicellular algae. 0
- verb bleach (Transitive Verb) (figuratively) To make meaningless; to divest of meaning; to make empty. 0
- adjective bleach (archaic) Pale; bleak. 0