bleached
Because it is a word with a single syllable, bleached is not hyphenated. The words that have a single syllable are called monosyllabic words.
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Definitions ofbleached
- To treat with bleach, especially so as to whiten (fabric, paper, etc.) or lighten (hair).
- To be whitened or lightened (by the sun, for example).
- (of corals) to lose color due to stress-induced expulsion of symbiotic unicellular algae.
Example: "Once coral bleaching begins, corals tend to continue to bleach even if the stressor is removed."
- To make meaningless; to divest of meaning; to make empty.
Example: "semantically bleached words that have become illocutionary particles"
- Whitened; made white using bleach
Example: "Bleached cotton"
- Faded or washed out by weather and strong sunlight.
- Having the hair lightened by bleaching.
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