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1. Having lost freshness or brilliance of colour
   "sun-bleached deck chairs";
   - faded, washed-out, washy
    
2. (used of colour) artificially produced; not natural
   "a bleached blonde";
   - colored [US], coloured [Brit, Cdn], dyed

1. Remove colour from
   "The sun bleached the red shirt";
   - bleach out, decolor [US], decolour [Brit, Cdn], decolorize [US], decolourize [Brit, Cdn], decolorise [Brit], decolourise [Brit], discolorize [US], discolourise [Brit, Cdn], discolorise [Brit, Cdn]
    
2. Make whiter or lighter
   "bleach the laundry"

See also: artificial, colorless [US], colourless [Brit, Cdn], unreal

Type of: discolor [US], discolour [Brit, Cdn], white, whiten

Encyclopedia: Bleach