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bleached

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adjective
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As an adjective, bleached means whitened.

Meanings of bleached

5 meanings

adjective

  1. Whitened; made white using bleach

    “Bleached cotton”

  2. Faded or washed out by weather and strong sunlight.

  3. Having the hair lightened by bleaching.

  4. Having lost freshness or brilliance of color

    “sun-bleached deck chairs”

    “faded jeans”

    “a very pale washed-out blue”

    Similar: faded, washed-out, washy

  5. (used of color) artificially produced; not natural

    “a bleached blonde”

    Similar: colored, coloured, dyed

verb

Simple past tense and past participle of bleach

Meanings from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).

Synonyms by meaning

All synonyms for bleached →
adjective: having lost freshness or brilliance of color
fadedwashed-outwashy
adjective: (used of color) artificially produced; not natural
coloredcoloureddyed

Words that rhyme with bleached

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reachedbreachedpreachedbeachedbeseechedimpeachedleachedscreeched

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