bleach

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A chemical, such as sodium hypochlorite or hydrogen peroxide, or a preparation of such a chemical, used for disinfecting or whitening.
2. isim A variety of bleach.
3. fiil 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.”

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

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

5. fiil 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.”

6. fiil To make meaningless; to divest of meaning; to make empty.

   “semantically bleached words that have become illocutionary particles”

7. isim An act of bleaching; exposure to the sun.
8. sıfat Pale; bleak.
9. isim A disease of the skin characterized by hypopigmentation and itching, believed in the 17th century to be a form of leprosy.