| bleach | (noun) the act of whitening something by bleaching it (exposing it to sunlight or using a chemical bleaching agent) | - |
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| (noun) the whiteness that results from removing the color from something | - |
| (noun) an agent that makes things white or colorless | Synonyms: blanching agent, bleaching agent, whitener |
| (verb) make whiter or lighter | - |
| (verb) cause to become white or lighter in color | Synonyms: bleach out, decolor, decolorise, decolorize, decolour, decolourise, decolourize, discolorise, discolorize, discolourise |
| bleached | (adjective) (used of color) artificially produced; not natural | Synonyms: colored, coloured, dyed |
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| (adjective) having lost freshness or brilliance of color | Synonyms: faded, washed-out, washy |
| bleacher | (noun) a worker who bleaches (cloth or flour etc.) | - |
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| bleachers | (noun) (used in the plural) an outdoor grandstand without a roof; patrons are exposed to the sun as linens are when they are bleached | - |
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| leach | (noun) the process of leaching | Synonyms: leaching |
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| (verb) remove substances from by a percolating liquid | Synonyms: strip |
| (verb) permeate or penetrate gradually | Synonyms: percolate |
| (verb) cause (a liquid) to leach or percolate | - |
| leaching | (noun) the process of leaching | Synonyms: leach |
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| oleaceous | (adjective) of or pertaining to or characteristic of trees or shrubs of the olive family | - |
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| pleach | (verb) interlace the shoots of | Synonyms: plash |
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| (verb) form or weave into a braid or braids | Synonyms: braid |
| unbleached | (adjective) not artificially colored or bleached | Synonyms: uncolored, undyed |
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