Usually means: Substances that lighten or whiten colors.
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  1. bleaches: Merriam-Webster
  2. bleaches: Collins English Dictionary
  3. bleaches: Vocabulary.com
  4. bleaches: Wordnik
  5. bleaches: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. bleaches: Wiktionary
  7. bleaches: Dictionary.com
  8. bleaches: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. bleaches: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. bleaches: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (bleach)

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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