bleach (verb)

  • 41whit´en|er — whit|en «HWY tuhn», transitive verb. to make white or whiter: »Sunshine helps to whiten clothes. –v.i. to become white or whiter: »She whitened when she heard the bad news. –whit´en|er, noun. Synonym Study transitive verb, intransitive verb.… …

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  • 42whit|en — «HWY tuhn», transitive verb. to make white or whiter: »Sunshine helps to whiten clothes. –v.i. to become white or whiter: »She whitened when she heard the bad news. –whit´en|er, noun. Synonym Study transitive verb, intransitive verb. Whiten,… …

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  • 43blanch — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. whiten; scald. See colorlessness, food. II (Roget s IV) v. Syn. whiten, etiolate, wash out, turn pale; see bleach , whiten 1 . III (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) v. whiten, bleach, fade, wash out, pale.… …

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  • 44blaikjan — *blaikjan germ., schwach. Verb: nhd. weiß machen, bleichen; ne. make (Verb) white, bleach; Rekontruktionsbasis: an., ae., ahd.; Hinweis: s. *blaika ; Etymologie: s. ing …

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  • 48fade — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. pale, dim, bleach, whiten; vanish, disappear; languish, wither, shrivel. See dimness, colorlessness, nonexistence, deterioration, disappearance, weakness, transientness, oblivion. II (Roget s IV) v …

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  • 49bleak — [16] Bleak originally meant ‘pale’, and comes ultimately from an Indo European base *bhleg , possible source of black and a variant of *phleg , which produced Greek phlégein ‘burn’ and Latin flagrāre ‘burn’ (whence English conflagration and… …

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  • 50blaze — {{11}}blaze (n.1) bright flame, fire, O.E. blæse a torch, flame, firebrand, lamp, from P.Gmc. *blas shining, white (Cf. O.S. blas white, whitish, M.H.G. blas bald, originally white, shining, O.H.G. blas ros horse with a white spot, M.Du., Du.… …

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