English words for 'bleary'
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noun
- (countable) A variety of bleach.
- (uncountable) A chemical, such as sodium hypochlorite or hydrogen peroxide, or a preparation of such a chemical, used for disinfecting or whitening.
- An act of bleaching; exposure to the sun.
- an agent that makes things white or colorless
- the whiteness that results from removing the color from something
- the act of whitening something by bleaching it (exposing it to sunlight or using a chemical bleaching agent)
verb
- (transitive, figurative) To make meaningless; to divest of meaning; to make empty.
- (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).
- (intransitive, biology, of corals) To lose color due to stress-induced expulsion of symbiotic unicellular algae.
- make whiter or lighter
- cause to become white or lighter in color
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noun
- (countable) A variety of bleach.
- (uncountable) A chemical, such as sodium hypochlorite or hydrogen peroxide, or a preparation of such a chemical, used for disinfecting or whitening.
- An act of bleaching; exposure to the sun.
- an agent that makes things white or colorless
- the whiteness that results from removing the color from something
- the act of whitening something by bleaching it (exposing it to sunlight or using a chemical bleaching agent)
verb
- (transitive, figurative) To make meaningless; to divest of meaning; to make empty.
- (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).
- (intransitive, biology, of corals) To lose color due to stress-induced expulsion of symbiotic unicellular algae.
- make whiter or lighter
- cause to become white or lighter in color