Synonyms of bleaches

bleaches

verb

present tense third-person singular of bleach

as in fades

to make white or whiter by removing color

bleached the stained shirt back to its original white

Synonyms & Similar Words

• fades
• brightens
• whitens
• dulls
• blanches
• pales
• decolorizes
• snows
• lightens
• dims
• blenches
• washes out
• mats
• frosts
• whitewashes
• silvers
• etiolates

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• darkens
• deepens
• discolors
• blackens
• patterns
• stripes
• dyes
• shades
• tarnishes
• spots
• paints
• mottles
• pigments
• streaks
• colors
• stains
• dapples
• flecks
• daubs
• specks
• speckles
• tints
• embrowns
• marbles
• shines
• tinges
• checkers
• polishes
• variegates
• blotches
• splotches
• tinctures
• burnishes
• striates
• polychromes

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of bleaches

Martin uses a color extractor to remove existing dye, then bleaches the hair (except the gray roots) to get it as light as possible. — Maggie Ryan, Flow Space, 25 Sep. 2026

His owner, Hannah Gleason from Oklahoma, told Newsweek that the merle gene isn’t a coloring gene rather than a gene that bleaches the fur and causes lack of pigmentation which can lead to birth defects, blindness, deafness, or sometimes all three. — Maria Azzurra Volpe, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Oct. 2025