0 past simple and past participle of bleach
1 to remove the colour from something or make it lighter, with the use of chemicals or by the effect of light from the sun; to become lighter in this way :
He puts forward the argument that you know has been grammaticalized and, as such, any prior meaning has been "bleached out" (2002:755).
Generalization differs from my proposed lexical excorporation in that the 'bleached' semantic component is realized overtly in the latter.
One did not bleach the cloth but changed it every 3 days and the remainder bleached the cloth daily or weekly.
Sulphate in the bleached sand showed a similar pattern of a rapid fall to low levels by the fifth leach.
The heath plot was on coarse-textured bleached sand, whereas the peat-swamp plot was on the peat deposition of c. 7 m deep.
The parallel mylonitic fabric transects a mineral lineation in the bleached variegated marble at an oblique angle.
Some staining was present in the oocyte cortex, but this is attributable to the layer of pigment granules not being completely bleached.
Exposure to bleached kraft pulp-mill effluent disrupts the pituitary-gonadal axis of white sucker at multiple sites.
