Murray, p. 8, Immortal liberty, whose look sublime Hath bleach’d the Tyrant’s Cheek in every varying Clime. 1774, Tobias Smollett, Independence: An Ode, London: J.1538, Thomas Elyot, The Dictionary of Syr Thomas Eliot Knyght, London: Thomas Berthelet, Candifacio, to make whyte, to bleache, to make to glowe lyke a burnyng cole.( transitive ) To treat with bleach, especially so as to whiten (fabric, paper, etc.) or lighten (hair).Related to Old English blāc ( “ pale ” ) (English blake compare also bleak).īleach ( third-person singular simple present bleaches, present participle bleaching, simple past and past participle bleached) Cognate with Dutch bleken ( “ to bleach ” ), German bleichen ( “ to bleach ” ), Danish blege, Swedish bleka ( “ to bleach ” ). More at bleak.īleach ( comparative bleacher or more bleach, superlative bleachest or most bleach)įrom Middle English blechen, from Old English blǣċan ( “ to bleach, whiten ” ), from Proto-Germanic *blaikijaną, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- ( “ to shine ” ). From Middle English bleche (also bleke), from Old English blǣċ, blǣc, variants of blāc ( “ bright, shining, glittering, flashing bleak, pale, pallid, wan, livid ” ), from Proto-Germanic *blaikaz ( “ pale, shining ” ).
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