Synonyms for bleach
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1. bleachverb

   Synonyms:
   blanch

2. bleachverb

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

   Synonyms:
   blanch

3. bleachverb

   (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.

   Synonyms:
   blanch

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1. bleachverb

   To whiten is to make white in general, but commonly it means to overspread with white coloring-matter. Bleach and blanch both signify to whiten by depriving of color, the former permanently, as linen; the latter either permanently (as, to blanch celery) or temporarily (as, to blanch the cheek with fear). To whitewash is to whiten superficially, especially by false approval.

   Synonyms:
   blanch, make white, whiten, whitewash

   Antonyms:
   blacken, color, darken, dye, soil, stain

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1. bleach

   Synonyms:
   whiten, blanch

   Antonyms:
   darken, blacken, soil

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1. bleachnoun

   the whiteness that results from removing the color from something

   "a complete bleach usually requires several applications"

   Synonyms:
   whitener, blanching agent, bleaching agent

2. bleaching agent, bleach, blanching agent, whitenernoun

   an agent that makes things white or colorless

   Synonyms:
   whitener, blanching agent, bleaching agent

3. bleachverb

   the act of whitening something by bleaching it (exposing it to sunlight or using a chemical bleaching agent)

   Synonyms:
   whitener, blanching agent, bleaching agent

4. bleach, bleach out, decolor, decolour, decolorize, decolourize, decolorise, decolourise, discolorize, discolourise, discoloriseverb

   remove color from

   "The sun bleached the red shirt"

   Synonyms:
   decolorise, bleach out, decolourise, discolorise, decolour, discolourise, decolourize, decolorize, discolorize, decolor

5. bleachverb

   make whiter or lighter

   "bleach the laundry"

   Synonyms:
   decolorise, bleach out, decolourise, discolorise, decolour, discolourise, decolourize, decolorize, discolorize, decolor

Matched Categories

1. • White
   • Whiten

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1. bleachverb

   Synonyms:
   whiten, blanch, etiolate, make or render white

2. bleachverb

   Synonyms:
   whiten, etiolate, grow or become white

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1. bleachverb

   Synonyms:
   etiolate, whiten, blanch

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1. List of paraphrases for "bleach":

   bleaching, detergent, disinfectant, launder, laundering

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How to use bleach in a sentence?

1. Kevin Garcia:

   If you look at the whole process of how paper is traditionally made, it involves chopping trees, adding chemicals and bleach to make pulp, using lots of water and then squeezing, drying and flattening it into sheets of paper, it's labor intensive, contributes to high carbon emission deforestation.

2. Don Lemon:

   Jussie Smollett, the actor who is accused of lying to police about an alleged hate crime in 2019, testifying in his own defense today. At the time Smollett told police that two men had attacked him in the street yelling racist, anti-gay remarks, put a noose around his neck and poured bleach on him, smollett has repeatedly denied staging the racist and homophobic attack against himself; he is charged with six counts of disorderly conduct on suspicion of making false reports to police.

3. Alain Kapete:

   We now prepare the disinfectant in front of them so they can see we are adding bleach.

4. Emma Watson:

   It’s funny — I was just talking to my friend before this about how in the Instagram era it’s so easy to edit your life so that it looks perfect, but I bleach my top lip and tweeze my eyebrows and you ’d never get to see that, even though it’s a part of my routine. There’s still so much shame around the things you do to get ready while you’ve got a towel wrapped around your head. It’s important to me not to edit that out.

5. Penny Ward:

   Neither sitting in the sun, nor heating will kill a virus replicating in an individual patient's internal organs, drinking bleach kills. Injecting bleach kills faster. Don't do either!