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bleached

Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Bleached \Bleached\, a.
   Whitened; make white.

         Let their bleached bones, and blood's unbleaching
         stain, Long mark the battlefield with hideous awe.
                                                  --Byron.

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.

Source : WordNet®

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}, {coloured}, {dyed}]
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