bleach > define

noun

• The whiteness that results from removing the color from something.
  • usage: "a complete bleach usually requires several applications"
• An agent that makes things white or colorless.
  • synonyms: bleaching agent, blanching agent, whitener
• The act of whitening something by bleaching it (exposing it to sunlight or using a chemical bleaching agent. )

verb

• Remove color from.
  • usage: "The sun bleached the red shirt"
  • synonyms: bleach out, decolor, decolour, decolorize, decolourize, decolorise, decolourise, discolorize, discolourise, discolorise
• Make whiter or lighter.
  • usage: "bleach the laundry"

• (a.) To make white or whiter; to remove the color or stains, from; to blanch; to whiten.
• (v.i.) To grow white or lose color; to whiten.