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

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

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

 

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: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

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