bleach
verb/bliːtʃ/
/bliːtʃ/
[intransitive, transitive]Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they bleach | /bliːtʃ/ /bliːtʃ/ |
| he / she / it bleaches | /ˈbliːtʃɪz/ /ˈbliːtʃɪz/ |
| past simple bleached | /bliːtʃt/ /bliːtʃt/ |
| past participle bleached | /bliːtʃt/ /bliːtʃt/ |
| -ing form bleaching | /ˈbliːtʃɪŋ/ /ˈbliːtʃɪŋ/ |
- to become white or pale by a chemical process or by the effect of light from the sun; to make something white or pale in this way
（使）变白，漂白，晒白，褪色 - bones of animals bleaching in the sun
在阳光中变白的动物骸骨 - bleach something His hair was bleached by the sun.
他的头发被太阳晒得发白。 - bleached cotton/paper
漂白棉；漂白纸 - The paper is bleached with chlorine.
纸张用氯漂白。 - bleach something + adj. She bleached her hair blonde.
她把头发染成了金黄色。
Oxford Collocations DictionaryBleach is used with these nouns as the object:- hair
Word OriginOld English blǣcan (verb), blǣce (noun), from blǣc ‘pale’, of Germanic origin; related to bleak. - bones of animals bleaching in the sun