[syn: bleached, colored, coloured, dyed]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Bleach \Bleach\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bleached; p. pr. & vb. n.
Bleaching.] [OE. blakien, blechen, v. t. & v. i., AS.
bl[=a]cian, bl?can, to grow pale; akin to Icel. bleikja, Sw.
bleka, Dan. blege, D. bleeken, G. bleichen, AS. bl[=a]c pale.
See Bleak, a.]
To make white, or whiter; to remove the color, or stains,
from; to blanch; to whiten.
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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.
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Immortal liberty, whose look sublime
Hath bleached the tyrant's cheek in every varying
clime. --Smollett.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Bleached \Bleached\, a.
Whitened; make white.
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Let their bleached bones, and blood's unbleaching
stain,
Long mark the battlefield with hideous awe. --Byron.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
dyed \dyed\ adj.
1. colored or impregnated with dye. [Narrower terms:
dyed-in-the-wool, yarn-dyed; hennaed] undyed
Syn: tinted.
[WordNet 1.5]
2. having a new color imparted by impregnation with dye;
having an artificially produced color; not naturally
colored. [Narrower terms: bleached]
Syn: colored.
[WordNet 1.5]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
bleached
adj 1: having lost freshness or brilliance of color; "sun-
bleached deck chairs"; "faded jeans"; "a very pale
washed-out blue"; "washy colors" [syn: bleached,
faded, washed-out, washy]
2: (used of color) artificially produced; not natural; "a
bleached blonde" [syn: bleached, colored, coloured,
dyed]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
78 Moby Thesaurus words for "bleached":
bare, barren, blanched, bland, blank, bleached white, bright,
characterless, clean, cleanly, clear, dainty, decolored,
decolorized, devoid, dirt-free, drained, drained of color, empty,
eroded, faded, fair, fastidious, featureless, fresh, hollow,
immaculate, inane, insipid, kosher, lightened, nonpolluted, null,
null and void, of cleanly habits, pure, ritually pure, shiny,
smut-free, smutless, spotless, stainless, sweet, tahar, tubbed,
unadulterated, unbesmirched, unblemished, unblotted, undefiled,
unmuddied, unpolluted, unrelieved, unsmirched, unsmudged, unsoiled,
unspotted, unstained, unsullied, untainted, untarnished, vacant,
vacuous, void, washed-out, weather-battered, weather-beaten,
weather-bitten, weather-eaten, weather-wasted, weathered,
weatherworn, well-scrubbed, well-washed, white, whitened,
with nothing inside, without content