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Bleach vs. Bleech — Which is Correct Spelling?

Bleach vs. Bleech — Which is Correct Spelling?

Which is correct: Bleach or Bleech

How to spell Bleach?

Bleach

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Bleech

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Bleach Definitions

Bleach is the generic name for any chemical product that is used industrially and domestically to remove color from a fabric or fiber or to clean or to remove stains in a process called bleaching. It often refers, specifically, to a dilute solution of sodium hypochlorite, also called "liquid bleach".
To remove the color from, as by means of chemical agents or sunlight
Over time, the exposure to sunlight bleached the rug in front of the window.
To make white or colorless
Dawn bleached the mountains.
To whiten by causing the death or expulsion of algal symbionts from (coral).
To act as or use a bleach.
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To become white as a result of the loss of algal symbionts, usually following an environmental stress such as increased water temperature. Used of coral.
A chemical agent used for bleaching.
The act of bleaching.
The degree of bleaching obtained.
(archaic) Pale; bleak.
(transitive) To treat with bleach, especially so as to whiten (fabric, paper, etc.) or lighten (hair).
(intransitive) To be whitened or lightened (by the sun, for example).
To lose color due to stress-induced expulsion of symbiotic unicellular algae.
Once coral bleaching begins, corals tend to continue to bleach even if the stressor is removed.
To make meaningless; to divest of meaning; to make empty.
Semantically bleached words that have become illocutionary particles
(uncountable) A chemical, such as sodium hypochlorite or hydrogen peroxide, or a preparation of such a chemical, used for disinfecting or whitening.
(countable) A variety of bleach.
An act of bleaching; exposure to the sun.
A disease of the skin.
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.
Immortal liberty, whose look sublimeHath bleached the tyrant's cheek in every varying clime.
To grow white or lose color; to whiten.
The whiteness that results from removing the color from something;
A complete bleach usually requires several applications
An agent that makes things white or colorless
The act of whitening something by bleaching it (exposing it to sunlight or using a chemical bleaching agent)
Remove color from;
The sun bleached the red shirt
Make whiter or lighter;
Bleach the laundry

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