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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Bleach \Bleach\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Bleached}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Bleaching}.] [OE. blakien, blechen, verb (used with an object) & verb (used without an object), 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}, adjective] To make white, or whiter; to remove the color, or stains, from; to blanch; to whiten.
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.
Immortal liberty, whose look sublime Hath bleached the tyrant's cheek in every varying clime. --Smollett.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Bleached \Bleached\, adjective Whitened; make white.
Let their bleached bones, and blood's unbleaching stain, Long mark the battlefield with hideous awe. --Byron.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
dyed \dyed\ adjective
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]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
bleached
adjective
1: having lost freshness or brilliance of color; "sun-bleached deck chairs"; "faded jeans"; "a very pale washed-out blue"; "washy colors" [syn: {faded}, {washed-out}, {washy}]
2: (used of color) artificially produced; not natural; "a bleached blonde" [syn: {colored}, {coloured}, {dyed}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
78 Moby Thesaurus words for "bleached": 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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