An act of bleaching; exposure to the sun.

A disease of the skin.

(archaic) Pale; bleak.

(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).

(uncountable) A chemical, such as sodium hypochlorite or hydrogen peroxide, or a preparation of such a chemical, used for disinfecting or whitening. / (countable) A variety of bleach.

Whitened; made white using bleach / Faded or washed out by weather and strong sunlight. / Having the hair lightened by bleaching.

simple past tense and past participle of bleach

present participle of bleach

The process of removing stains or of whitening fabrics, especially by the use of chemical agents. / The loss or removal of part of the (semantic, grammatical, etc) content or a word or morpheme.

plural of bleach