Bleach



GRE TOEFL

解释

GRE 红宝书

• v. 漂白
• ［英］ v. 漂白 ( cause sth to become white )
• ［例］ bleach cotton, linen

Webster Collegiate

I. verb

• Etymology: Middle English blechen, from Old English bl?cean; akin to Old English blāc pale; probably akin to Latin flagrare to burn — more at black
• Date: before 12th century
• transitive verb
  • 1. to remove color or stains from
  • 2.
    • a. to make whiter or lighter especially by physical or chemical removal of color <bleach clothing><the sun had bleached her hair>
    • b. to remove, make dull, or sanitize as if by removing color <bleaches colonialism of its genocidal legacy — H. A. Giroux>
• intransitive verb
  • 1. to grow white or lose color
  • 2. of coral ; to expel symbiotic zooxanthellae exposing a white skeleton
• ? bleachable adjective

II. noun

• Date: 1887
• 1. the act or process of bleaching
• 2. a preparation used in bleaching
• 3. the degree of whiteness obtained by bleaching

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