as in faded
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as in brightened
to make white or whiter by removing color
bleached the stained shirt back to its original white
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bleached
Adjective
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Her devotees are still sweating through workouts at a faded gym in Queens.—
Alex Vadukul,
New York Times,
21 May 2025 -
It’s all come a long way from Tennant’s time in a house of eight girls at university, laundry drying racks layered with shapeless, faded underwear.—
Anna Cafolla,
Vogue,
20 May 2025
Verb
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Hollis brightened the beige-on-beige hallway entrance to her apartment by hanging a wreath of flowers on her brown door.—
Carol Marbin Miller,
Miami Herald,
2 Jan. 2025
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Hotter and brighter than the sun The OGLE data revealed several objects in the LMC and SMC that brightened by between 10 and 20 times over the course of a few months.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
23 Dec. 2024
Adjective
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Though adidas has recently dropped the Tokyo in metallic and neon colorways, this leather-and-suede version featuring a muted grey body is, in our eyes, a more adaptable choice.—
Stacia Datskovska,
Footwear News,
21 May 2025
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The officer saw a grey Cybertruck on fire, with an unbroken Molotov cocktail in an apple cider vinegar bottle lying nearby.—
PJ Green,
Kansas City Star,
16 May 2025
Adjective
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Massa is slender and just 5 feet tall in her work boots, with strands of gray lightening her dark hair.—
Tribune News Service,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
24 May 2025
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Beam supports virtual backgrounds, although the one for this call was the most boring kind of flat gray possible.—
Rob Pegoraro,
PC Magazine,
23 May 2025
Adjective
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Lindsay’s nails cause the color of the nail bed to look half white and half red or brown, whereas Terry’s nails cause the nail bed to look mostly white or washed-out, per Cleveland Clinic.—
Caroline C. Boyle,
USA TODAY,
12 Nov. 2024
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This shade leans totally into nude territory without being washed-out.—
Kaitlyn Yarborough,
Southern Living,
25 July 2024
Adjective
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The best is the smiles and dancing at the washy washy station.—
Nathan Diller,
USA TODAY,
13 May 2024
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But like most of his saccharine repertoire, the lyrics don’t go much further than a washy setting of twinkly romance at the sock hop.—
Sophia Solano,
Washington Post,
10 Dec. 2023
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“Bleached.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bleached. Accessed 31 May. 2025.
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