Antonyms for bleach
blitʃbleach

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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.

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

   Synonyms:
   blanch, make white, whiten, whitewash

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1. bleach

   Antonyms:
   darken, blacken, soil

   Synonyms:
   whiten, blanch

Matched Categories

1. • White
   • Whiten

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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

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1. bleachverb

   Synonyms:
   etiolate, whiten, blanch

How to use bleach in a sentence?

1. Alain Kapete:

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

2. 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.

3. George W. Cecil:

   On the Plains of Hesitation bleach the bones of countless millions, who, at the Dawn of Victory, sat down to wait, and waiting--died

4. Mara Dolores Iglesias Bentez:

   Bleach is used as a very powerful disinfectant, it is logical that it be used to disinfect streets and asphalt, but here the damage has been brutal.

5. Vincent Hill:

   Nineteen percent wash food products with bleach, which could lead to their consumption of bleach that isn't washed off, which can damage the body because bleach is toxic. Eighteen percent used household cleaner on bare skin, which can damage the skin and cause rashes and burns.

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