Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to bleach
Participle: bleached
Gerund: bleaching
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | bleach |
| you | bleach |
| he;she;it | bleaches |
| we | bleach |
| you | bleach |
| they | bleach |
Perfect
| I | have bleached |
| you | have bleached |
| he;she;it | has bleached |
| we | have bleached |
| you | have bleached |
| they | have bleached |
Past
| I | bleached |
| you | bleached |
| he;she;it | bleached |
| we | bleached |
| you | bleached |
| they | bleached |
Pluperfect
| I | had bleached |
| you | had bleached |
| he;she;it | had bleached |
| we | had bleached |
| you | had bleached |
| they | had bleached |
Future
| I | will bleach |
| you | will bleach |
| he;she;it | will bleach |
| we | will bleach |
| you | will bleach |
| they | will bleach |
Future Perfect
| I | will have bleached |
| you | will have bleached |
| he;she;it | will have bleached |
| we | will have bleached |
| you | will have bleached |
| they | will have bleached |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | bleach |
| you | bleach |
| he;she;it | bleach |
| we | bleach |
| you | bleach |
| they | bleach |
Perfect
| I | have bleached |
| you | have bleached |
| he;she;it | have bleached |
| we | have bleached |
| you | have bleached |
| they | have bleached |
Imperfect
| I | bleached |
| you | bleached |
| he;she;it | bleached |
| we | bleached |
| you | bleached |
| they | bleached |
Pluperfect
| I | had bleached |
| you | had bleached |
| he;she;it | had bleached |
| we | had bleached |
| you | had bleached |
| they | had bleached |
Conditional
Present
| I | would bleach |
| you | would bleach |
| he;she;it | would bleach |
| we | would bleach |
| you | would bleach |
| they | would bleach |
Perfect
| I | would have bleached |
| you | would have bleached |
| he;she;it | would have bleached |
| we | would have bleached |
| you | would have bleached |
| they | would have bleached |
Imperative
| you | bleach |
| we | Let's bleach |
| you | bleach |
Verbs conjugated like 'bleach'
abash,
abolish,
abroach,
accomplish,
accroach,
address,
admix,
admonish,
ado,
adpress,
affamish,
affix,
alloo,
amass,
ambush,
anguish,
annex,
appeach,
appears,
approach, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'bleach'
beach,
blech,
blench,
breach,
leach,
pleach,
areach,
bach,
beath,
belch,
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. O.E.
blæcan, from P.Gmc.
*blaikos "white," from PIE
*bhleg- "to gleam," root of
blanche, blank, bleak and probably
black. The connection seems to be "burning, blazing, shining, whiteness." That the same root yielded words for "black" and "white" is probably because both are colorless, and perhaps because both are associated with burning.
Bleachers (1889, Amer.Eng.) were so-named because the boards were bleached by the sun.
2. From Middle English blechen, from Old English blǣċan (“to bleach, whiten”), from Proto-West Germanic *blaikijan, from Proto-Germanic *blaikijaną, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- (“to shine”).
3. Cognate with Dutch bleken (“to bleach”), German bleichen (“to bleach”), Danish blege, Swedish bleka (“to bleach”). Related to Old English blāc (“pale”) (English blake; compare also bleak). See: Middle English '
blechen', Proto-Germanic '
*blaikijaną', Dutch '
bleken', German, old spelling '
bleichen', Danish '
blege', Swedish '
bleka'.
Verbs referencing "bleach"
German, old spelling
bleichen, Luxembourgish
bleechen, Norwegian, nynorsk
bleikja, Norwegian, nynorsk
bleikje.
Sample Sentences
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Candifacio, to make whyte, to bleache, to make to glowe lyke a burnyng cole. [1538, Thomas Elyot, The Dictionary of Syr Thomas Eliot Knyght, London: Thomas Berthelet:]
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The destruction of the colouring matters attached to the bodies to be bleached is effected either by the action of the air and light, of chlorine, or of sulphurous acid. [1830, Andrew Ure, “BLEACHING”, in A Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines, London: Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longmans, page 128:]
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The white sheet bleaching on the hedge,
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With heigh! the sweet birds, O, how they sing! [c. 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Winters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii]:]
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[…] when Mrs. Giddy-gaddy came to take out her clothes, deep green stains appeared on every thing, for she had forgotten the green silk lining of a certain cape, and its color had soaked nicely into the pink and blue gowns, the little chemises, and even the best ruffled petticoat. […] “Lay them on the grass to bleach,” said Daisy, with an air of experience. [1871, Louisa M[ay] Alcott, chapter 15, in Little Men: […], Boston, Mass.: Roberts Brothers, →OCLC:]
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The autumn trees, ravaged as they are, take on the flash of tattered flags kindling in the gloom of cool cathedral caves where gold letters on marble pages describe death in battle and how bones bleach and burn far away in Indian sands. [1927, Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse, London: The Hogarth Press, published 1920, Part 2, p. 198:]
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Once coral bleaching begins, corals tend to continue to bleach even if the stressor is removed.
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semantically bleached words that have become illocutionary particles