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bleaching

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bleach  (blch)
v. bleached, bleach·ing, bleach·es
v.tr.
1. To remove the color from, as by means of chemical agents or sunlight.
2. To make white or colorless.
v.intr.
To become white or colorless.
n.
1. A chemical agent used for bleaching.
2.
a. The act of bleaching.
b. The degree of bleaching obtained.
[Middle English blechen, from Old English blcan; see bhel-1 in Indo-European roots.]
Translations
bleaching [ˈbliːtʃɪŋ]
A. N → decoloración f
B. CPD bleaching agent N → decolorante m
bleaching powder N → polvos mpl de blanqueo
bleaching
n → Bleichen nt; they need a good bleaching → sie müssten richtig gebleicht werden
bleaching [ˈbliːtʃɪŋ] n → decolorazione f; (of hair) → ossigenazione f
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Upon the stranger's shears were beheld the shattered, white ribs, and some few splintered planks, of what had once been a whale-boat; but you now saw through this wreck, as plainly as you see through the peeled, half-unhinged, and bleaching skeleton of a horse.
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