Usually means: Chemical used for whitening, disinfecting.
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We found 38 dictionaries that define the word bleach:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. bleach: Merriam-Webster
  2. bleach: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. bleach: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. bleach: Collins English Dictionary
  5. bleach: Vocabulary.com
  6. Bleach, bleach: Wordnik
  7. bleach: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. bleach: Wiktionary
  9. bleach: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. bleach: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. bleach: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. bleach: Dictionary.com
  13. bleach: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. bleach: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  16. Bleach: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. bleach: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. bleach: Rhymezone
  19. bleach: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. bleach: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. bleach: FreeDictionary.org
  22. bleach: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. bleach: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. bleach: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Bleach (brand), Bleach (chemical), bleach: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Hair Facts (No longer online)
  3. Bleach (brand), Bleach (chemical), bleach: Medical dictionary
  4. University of Maryland Glossary of Medical Terms (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. bleach: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of chlorine and other chemical related terms (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. bleach: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Book Binding (No longer online)
  2. Bleach: Ceramic Glossary Database
  3. PhotoNotes Dictionary of Film and Digital Photography (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (uncountable) A chemical, such as sodium hypochlorite or hydrogen peroxide, or a preparation of such a chemical, used for disinfecting or whitening.
noun:  (countable) A variety of bleach.
verb:  (transitive) To treat with bleach, especially so as to whiten (fabric, paper, etc.) or lighten (hair).
verb:  (intransitive) To be whitened or lightened (by the sun, for example).
verb:  (intransitive, biology, of corals) To lose color due to stress-induced expulsion of symbiotic unicellular algae.
verb:  (transitive, figurative) To make meaningless; to divest of meaning; to make empty.
noun:  An act of bleaching; exposure to the sun.
adjective:  (archaic) Pale; bleak.
noun:  (obsolete) A disease of the skin characterized by hypopigmentation and itching, believed in the 17th century to be a form of leprosy.

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