bleaching
Meaning of bleaching
verb
- To treat with bleach, especially so as to whiten (fabric, paper, etc.) or lighten (hair).
- To be whitened or lightened (by the sun, for example).
- (of corals) 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
- The process of removing stains or of whitening fabrics, especially by the use of chemical agents.
- The loss or removal of part of the (semantic, grammatical, etc) content or a word or morpheme.
Information about bleaching
- The plural form of bleaching is: bleachings.
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Hyphenation of bleaching
bleach-ing
- It consists of 2 syllables and 9 chars.
- bleaching is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
bleaching synonyms
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Words that rhyme with bleaching
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