bleach
verb /bliːtʃ/
/bliːtʃ/
[intransitive, transitive]Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they bleach | /bliːtʃ/ /bliːtʃ/ |
| he / she / it bleaches | /ˈbliːtʃɪz/ /ˈbliːtʃɪz/ |
| past simple bleached | /bliːtʃt/ /bliːtʃt/ |
| past participle bleached | /bliːtʃt/ /bliːtʃt/ |
| -ing form bleaching | /ˈbliːtʃɪŋ/ /ˈbliːtʃɪŋ/ |
- to become white or pale by a chemical process or by the effect of light from the sun; to make something white or pale in this way
- bones of animals bleaching in the sun
- bleach something His hair was bleached by the sun.
- bleached cotton/paper
- The paper is bleached with chlorine.
- bleach something + adj. She bleached her hair blonde.
Oxford Collocations DictionaryBleach is used with these nouns as the object:- hair
Word OriginOld English blǣcan (verb), blǣce (noun), from blǣc ‘pale’, of Germanic origin; related to bleak.