BLEACH

I. verb see: black Date: before 12th century transitive verb to remove color or stains from, 2. to make whiter or lighter especially by physical or chemical removal of color , to remove, make dull, or sanitize as if by removing color , intransitive verb to grow white or lose color, of coral ; to expel symbiotic zooxanthellae exposing a white skeleton, ~able adjective II. noun Date: 1887 the act or process of ~ing, a preparation used in ~ing, the degree of whiteness obtained by ~ing