bleach

1. 1.

   remove color from

   “The sun bleached the red shirt”

   Synonymsbleach outdecolordecolourdecolorizedecolourizedecolorisedecolourisediscolorizediscolourisediscolorise

   Broaderdiscolor
2. 2.

   make whiter or lighter

   “bleach the laundry”

   Broaderwhiten

   Narrowerperoxide

Other forms of bleach

plural

bleaches·

past tense

bleached·

present participle

bleaching·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about bleach

What does bleach mean?

bleach means "the whiteness that results from removing the color from something". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in bleach?

bleach has 1 syllable: bleach. In IPA it is /ˈblitʃ/.

What is another word for bleach?

Close synonyms include bleaching agent, blanching agent, whitener, bleach out, decolor. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is bleach a common word?

bleach is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.