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Meanings of bleached in English

Having lost freshness or brilliance of color.

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(Used of color) artificially produced; not natural.

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Examples for "faded"
1
Since September 11th, events in Northern Ireland have faded out of view.
The Irish Times
2
It happened quite quickly, and soon the bird was no longer faded.
Folktales from africa: the baboons who went this way and that
3
And my shirts are honorably faded by sun, sea, and hard work.
Shadow zone
4
A tiny trail of smoke curled up; and faded in the blue.
The Call of the Blood
5
But the jungle was gone; the vision had faded with the seer.
Everybody's Lonesome: A True Fairy Story
1
For a cup of washy tea to break in upon her rubber.
The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, February 1844 /...
2
I'll make him think I'm a wishy-washy moonstruck girl, smitten with him.
The Desert of Wheat
3
Its views are Liberal-Conservative, and wishy-washy; its principal concern to remain in office.
Town Life in Australia
4
NYPIRG was a Naderite group, and seen as kind of wishy-washy and bourgeois.
The bridge: the life and rise of barack obama
5
There is very little wish-washy coddling of the criminal in Canada.
The Canadian Commonwealth
1
My environment is restored, though with a somewhat washed-out look to it.
The Great Book of Amber
2
But I had taken against the washed-out tunic I'd put on yesterday.
Shadows in Bronze
3
The interior of the van looked like a gray, washed-out video feed.
Deep black
4
However, the image of her washed-out face would not leave my mind.
The Rise of David Levinsky
5
He held it out with his queer washed-out smile, and Steinmetz smiled.
The Sowers
Usage of bleached in English
1
Krusteaz and Fleischmann's mixes use bleached flour, while others list unbleached flour.
The bread lover's bread machine cookbook: a master baker's 300 f...
2
She set a small silver box on the bleached wood coffee table.
Afternoon delight
3
The original colour of the garment will spread into the bleached area.
The Guardian
4
We are all bleached almost white; my uniform hangs about me loosely.
Through Three Campaigns: A Story of Chitral, Tirah and Ashanti
5
The damask table cloths with the ribbon pattern must be bleached to-morrow.
Further Chronicles of Avonlea
6
This amount of cloth may be bleached in fourteen or fifteen minutes.
The Whitehouse Cookbook (1887) / Cooking, Toilet and Household R...
7
The roots of her hair showed plainly that it had been bleached.
Guy Garrick
8
Outside the window, New York lay bleached and roiling in the heat.
Flesh and blood
9
The bleached men began to yawn, the medicated women to slip away.
Trail's End
10
A snowstorm bleached the early evening sky, the first of the season.
Dark dreamer: a dark vista romance
11
Something small and bleached is looking back at her through the strings.
Poe's children: the new horror : an anthology
12
The earth was as bleached as though covered with snow or saltpetre.
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
13
A bleached ox-skull focussed the light with a glaze that stabbed vision.
The Freebooters of the Wilderness
14
The bleached look would go well with their jerseys, would it not?
The Irish Times
15
Plus the room was bleached down before they exited via the window.'
Lockdown
16
Typically, all-purpose flours are bleached with either benzoyl peroxide or chlorine gas.
The cook's illustrated how-to-cook library
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United States of America
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