bleach

noun · verb · adjectiveA2

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Danh từ

noun

Plural noun:

bleaches

1.
(uncountable)A chemical, such as sodium hypochlorite or hydrogen peroxide, or a preparation of such a chemical, used for disinfecting or whitening.
2.
(countable)A variety of bleach.
3.
An act of bleaching; exposure to the sun.
4.
(obsolete)A disease of the skin characterized by hypopigmentation and itching, believed in the 17th century to be a form of leprosy.

Động từ

verb

V_es/s

bleaches

V_ing/Gerund

bleaching

V_ed/pp

bleached

1.
(transitive)To treat with bleach, especially so as to whiten (fabric, paper, etc.) or lighten (hair).
Đồng nghĩa: whitewash
2.
(intransitive)To be whitened or lightened (by the sun, for example).
3.
(intransitive)(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.
4.
(figuratively, transitive)(transitive, figurative) To make meaningless; to divest of meaning; to make empty.
semantically bleached words that have become illocutionary particles

Tính từ

adjective

Comparative

bleachermore bleach

Superlative

bleachestmost bleach

1.
(archaic)Pale; bleak.

Từ liên quan

Đồng nghĩa

whitewash blanch

Cùng gốc / liên quan

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Nguồn gốc từ

ine-pro From Middle English blechen, from Old English blǣċan (to bleach, whiten), from *blaikijan, from Proto-Germanic *blaikijaną, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- (to shine).