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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Bleached \Bleached\, a.
Whitened; make white.
Let their bleached bones, and blood's unbleaching
stain, Long mark the battlefield with hideous awe.
--Byron.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.
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.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
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: {faded}, {washed-out}, {washy}]
2: (used of color) artificially produced; not natural; "a
bleached blonde" [syn: {colored}, {dyed}]
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