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BLEACHED
bleached, faded, washed-out, washy
(adjective) having lost freshness or brilliance of color; “sun-bleached deck chairs”; “faded jeans”; “a very pale washed-out blue”; “washy colors”
bleached, colored, coloured, dyed
(adjective) (used of color) artificially produced; not natural; “a bleached blonde”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Adjective
bleached (comparative more bleached, superlative most bleached)
Whitened; made white using bleach
Faded or washed out by weather and strong sunlight.
Having the hair lightened by bleaching.
Synonyms
• (whitened): blanched
• (faded or washed out): see also decoloured
Verb
bleached
simple past tense and past participle of bleach
Source: Wiktionary
Bleached, a.
Definition: Whitened; make white. Let their bleached bones, and blood's unbleaching stain, Long mark the battlefield with hideous awe. Byron.
BLEACH
Bleach, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bleached; p. pr. & vb. n. Bleaching.] Etym: [OE. blakien, blechen, v. t. & v. i., AS. blacian, bl, to grow pale; akin to Icel. bleikja, Sw. bleka, Dan. blege, D. bleeken, G. bleichen, AS. blac pale. See Bleak, a.]
Definition: To make white, or whiter; to remove the color, or stains, from; to blanch; to whiten. The destruction of the coloring matters attached to the bodies to be bleached is effected either by the action of the air and light, of chlorine, or of sulphurous acid. Ure. Immortal liberty, whose look sublime Hath bleached the tyrant's cheek in every varying clime. Smollett.
Bleach, v. i.
Definition: To grow white or lose color; to whiten.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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