English Dictionary

bleach

verb

(transitive) To treat with bleach, especially so as to whiten (fabric, paper, etc.) or lighten (hair). / (intransitive) To be whitened or lightened (by the sun, for example).

I need to bleach my white clothes to remove the stains.

意味（1）

(transitive) To treat with bleach, especially so as to whiten (fabric, paper, etc.) or lighten (hair).

Candifacio, to make whyte, to bleache, to make to glowe lyke a burnyng cole.

意味（2）

(intransitive) To be whitened or lightened (by the sun, for example).

The white sheet bleaching on the hedge,

The white sheet bleaching on the hedge, With heigh! the sweet birds, O, how they sing!

意味（3）

(intransitive, biology, of corals) To lose color due to stress-induced expulsion of symbiotic unicellular algae.

Once coral bleaching begins, corals tend to continue to bleach even if the stressor is removed.

意味（4）

(transitive, figuratively) To make meaningless; to divest of meaning; to make empty.

semantically bleached words that have become illocutionary particles