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Määritelmät
Substantiivi
- (uncountable) A chemical, such as sodium hypochlorite or hydrogen peroxide, or a preparation of such a chemical, used for disinfecting or whitening.
- An act of bleaching; exposure to the sun.
- (obsolete) A disease of the skin characterized by hypopigmentation and itching, believed in the 17th century to be a form of leprosy.
- (countable) A variety of bleach.
Verbi
- (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).
- (intransitive, biology, of corals) To lose color due to stress-induced expulsion of symbiotic unicellular algae.
- (transitive, figurative) To make meaningless; to divest of meaning; to make empty.
Adjektiivi
- (archaic) Pale; bleak.
Esimerkit
- The destruction of the colouring 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.
- Immortal liberty, whose look sublime / Hath bleached the tyrant's cheek in every varying clime.
- Once coral bleaching begins, corals tend to continue to bleach even if the stressor is removed.
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