bleach

Speech parts

1. bleach - Noun

2. bleach - Adjective

3. bleach - Verb

Meaning

To make white, or whiter; to remove the color, or stains, from; to blanch; to whiten.

To grow white or lose color; to whiten.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

whitener blanch decolorize decolor bleaching agent decolorise decolour decolourize decolourise blanching agent bleach out discolorize discolourise bleacher whiting

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Antonyms

african fleck dyer speck color dot

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Hypernyms

white whiten agent discolor whiteness whitening

Hyponyms

peroxide benzoyl peroxide Clorox sodium hypochlorite bleaching powder chloride of lime

Phrases with the word

bleach job home liquid bleach bleach powder bleach concentrate bleach composition bleach solution

Derivatives

bleached bleaching

Anagrams

balche Blecha

Examples

Sunshine cannot bleach the snow, Nor time unmake what poets know. Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you will die for me, I will die for you and our graves will be like two lovers washing their clothes together in a laundromat If you will bring the soap I will bring the bleach. Richard Brautigan

Forgotten? No, we never do forget: We let the years go; wash them clean with tears, Leave them to bleach out in the open day, Or lock them careful by, like dead friends' clothes, Till we shall dare unfold them without pain, - But we forget not, never can forget. Dinah Craik

Bleach the green from the pastures. Daniel Johns

Life's a bleach and then you dye. English Proverb

They who do not wash well, do not bleach well. Danish Proverb

Close letter words and terms

blea Blea Moor bleaberry bleach blonde bleach composition bleach concentrate