bleach

bleach is a 6-letter English word with 7 senses as adjective, intransitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To make white, or whiter; to remove the color, or stains, from; to blanch; to whiten. Face value is 13 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 13 · Words With Friends 15 · 7 senses

Definitions

1. adjective. To make white, or whiter; to remove the color, or stains, from; to blanch; to whiten.
2. intransitive verb. To grow white or lose color; to whiten.
3. noun. the act of whitening something by bleaching it (exposing it to sunlight or using a chemical bleaching agent)
4. noun. the whiteness that results from removing the color from something

   "a complete bleach usually requires several applications"

5. noun. an agent that makes things white or colorless

   Synonyms: whitener

6. verb. make whiter or lighter

   "bleach the laundry"

7. verb. remove color from

   "The sun bleached the red shirt"

   Synonyms: decolor, decolorise, decolorize, decolour, decolourise, decolourize, discolorise, discolorize, discolourise

Synonyms

whitener, decolor, decolorise, decolorize, decolour, decolourise, decolourize, discolorise, discolorize, discolourise

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in bleach:

balche

Common word forms

bleachs, bleached, bleacher, bleaches, bleaching, bleachable

Words from these letters

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