bleach
bleach is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 2 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.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.
- 2.To grow white or lose color; to whiten.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- alabaster
- albata
- albification
- argent
- argentine
- barium
- blanc
- blanch
- blond
- candid
- canescent
- carbonate
- ceruse
- chalk
- chalky
- creamy
- cretaceous
- driven
- eburin
- etiolate
- etiolation
- fair
- high
- hoar
- hoary
- ivory
- lactescence
- lactescent
- lead
- light
- like
- lily
- metal
- milk
- niveous
- oxide
- paper
- pearl
- pearly
- render
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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