Word Meanings - BLEACH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To make white, or whiter; to remove the color, or stains, from; to blanch; to whiten. 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

Additional info about word: BLEACH

To make white, or whiter; to remove the color, or stains, from; to blanch; to whiten. 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. Immortal liberty, whose look sublime Hath bleached the tyrant's cheek in every varying clime. Smollett. (more info) pale; akin to Icel. bleikja, Sw. bleka, Dan. blege, D. bleeken, G.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of BLEACH)

• Blanch
• Bleach
• whiten
• Fade
• Fall
• fail
• decline
• sink
• droop
• dwindle
• vanish
• change
• pale
• bleach
• set
• etiolate

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of BLEACH)

• Conserve
• retain
• stabilitate
• fix
• clinch
• stand
• endure
• last
• hold

Related words: (words related to BLEACH)

• DROOPER
  One who, or that which, droops.
• BLEACHED
  Whitened; make white. Let their bleached bones, and blood's unbleaching stain, Long mark the battlefield with hideous awe. Byron.
• BLANCH HOLDING
  A mode of tenure by the payment of a small duty in white rent or otherwise.
• CHANGEFUL
  Full of change; mutable; inconstant; fickle; uncertain. Pope. His course had been changeful. Motley. -- Change"ful*ly, adv. -- Change"ful*ness, n.
• RETAINMENT
  The act of retaining; retention. Dr. H. More.
• STANDARD
  The proportion of weights of fine metal and alloy established by authority. By the present standard of the coinage, sixty-two shillings is coined out of one pound weight of silver. Arbuthnot. (more info) extendere to spread out, extend,
• STANDPOINT
  A fixed point or station; a basis or fundamental principle; a position from which objects or principles are viewed, and according to which they are compared and judged.
• DWINDLEMENT
  The act or process of dwindling; a dwindling. Mrs. Oliphant.
• STANDPIPE
  A vertical pipe, open at the top, between a hydrant and a reservoir, to equalize the flow of water; also, a large vertical pipe, near a pumping engine, into which water is forced up, so as to give it sufficient head to rise to the required level
• DROOPINGLY
  In a drooping manner.
• ENDUREMENT
  Endurance. South.
• CHANGEABLY
  In a changeable manner.
• ETIOLATE
  To become pale through disease or absence of light. (more info) 1. To become white or whiter; to be whitened or blanched by excluding the light of the sun, as, plants.
• BLANCH
  To bleach by excluding the light, as the stalks or leaves of plants, by earthing them up or tying them together. To make white by removing the skin of, as by scalding; as, to blanch almonds. To whiten, as the surface of meat, by plunging
• DECLINE
  décliner to decline, refuse, fr. L. declinare to turn aside, inflect , avoid; de- + clinare to incline; akin to E. lean. 1. To bend, or lean downward; to take a downward direction; to bend over or hang down, as from weakness, weariness,
• WHITENESS
  A flock of swans. (more info) 1. The quality or state of being white; white color, or freedom from darkness or obscurity on the surface. Chaucer. 2. Want of a sanguineous tinge; paleness; as from terror, grief, etc. "The whiteness in thy cheek."
• WHITENING
  1. The act or process of making or becoming white. 2. That which is used to render white; whiting. Whitening stone, a sharpening and polishing stone used by cutlers; also, a finishing grindstone of fine texture.
• STABILITATE
  To make stable; to establish. Dr. H. More.
• STANDAGE
  A reservior in which water accumulates at the bottom of a mine.
• WHITEN
  To grow white; to turn or become white or whiter; as, the hair whitens with age; the sea whitens with foam; the trees in spring whiten with blossoms. (more info) Etym:
• BYSTANDER
  One who stands near; a spectator; one who has no concern with the business transacting. He addressed the bystanders and scattered pamphlets among them. Palfrey. Syn. -- Looker on; spectator; beholder; observer.
• REEXCHANGE
  To exchange anew; to reverse .
• AGAINSTAND
  To withstand.
• EXCHANGE EDITOR
  An editor who inspects, and culls from, periodicals, or exchanges, for his own publication.
• COUNTERCHANGED
  Having the tinctures exchanged mutually; thus, if the field is divided palewise, or and azure, and cross is borne counterchanged, that part of the cross which comes on the azure side will be or, and that on the or side will be azure. (more info)
• COUNTERCHANGE
  1. To give and receive; to cause to change places; to exchange. 2. To checker; to diversify, as in heraldic counterchanging. See Counterchaged, a., 2. With-elms, that counterchange the floor Of this flat lawn with dusk and bright. Tennyson.
• UNDERSTANDINGLY
  In an understanding manner; intelligibly; with full knowledge or comprehension; intelligently; as, to vote upon a question understandingly; to act or judge understandingly. The gospel may be neglected, but in can not be understandingly disbelieved.
• STILLSTAND
  A standstill. Shak.
• BOOKSTAND
  1. A place or stand for the sale of books in the streets; a bookstall. 2. A stand to hold books for reading or reference.