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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

bleached
    adj 1: having lost freshness or brilliance of color; "sun-
           bleached deck chairs"; "faded jeans"; "a very pale
           washed-out blue"; "washy colors" [syn: bleached,
           faded, washed-out, washy]
    2: (used of color) artificially produced; not natural; "a
       bleached blonde" [syn: bleached, colored, coloured,
       dyed]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Bleach \Bleach\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bleached; p. pr. & vb. n.
   Bleaching.] [OE. blakien, blechen, v. t. & v. i., AS.
   bl[=a]cian, bl?can, to grow pale; akin to Icel. bleikja, Sw.
   bleka, Dan. blege, D. bleeken, G. bleichen, AS. bl[=a]c pale.
   See Bleak, a.]
   To make white, or whiter; to remove the color, or stains,
   from; to blanch; to whiten.
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         The destruction of the coloring 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.                                    --Ure.
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         Immortal liberty, whose look sublime
         Hath bleached the tyrant's cheek in every varying
         clime.                                   --Smollett.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Bleached \Bleached\, a.
   Whitened; make white.
   [1913 Webster]

         Let their bleached bones, and blood's unbleaching
         stain,
         Long mark the battlefield with hideous awe. --Byron.
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4. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

dyed \dyed\ adj.
   1. colored or impregnated with dye. [Narrower terms:
      dyed-in-the-wool, yarn-dyed; hennaed] undyed

   Syn: tinted.
        [WordNet 1.5]

   2. having a new color imparted by impregnation with dye;
      having an artificially produced color; not naturally
      colored. [Narrower terms: bleached]

   Syn: colored.
        [WordNet 1.5]

Thesaurus Results for bleached:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

bare, barren, blanched, bland, blank, bleached white, bright, characterless, clean, cleanly, clear, dainty, decolored, decolorized, devoid, dirt-free, drained, drained of color, empty, eroded, faded, fair, fastidious, featureless, fresh, hollow, immaculate, inane, insipid, kosher, lightened, nonpolluted, null, null and void, of cleanly habits, pure, ritually pure, shiny, smut-free, smutless, spotless, stainless, sweet, tahar, tubbed, unadulterated, unbesmirched, unblemished, unblotted, undefiled, unmuddied, unpolluted, unrelieved, unsmirched, unsmudged, unsoiled, unspotted, unstained, unsullied, untainted, untarnished, vacant, vacuous, void, washed-out, weather-battered, weather-beaten, weather-bitten, weather-eaten, weather-wasted, weathered, weatherworn, well-scrubbed, well-washed, white, whitened, with nothing inside, without content

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