"bleaching" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

IPA: /ˈbliːt͡ʃɪŋ/ Forms: bleachings [plural]
Rhymes: -iːtʃɪŋ Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} bleaching (countable and uncountable, plural bleachings)
  1. The process of removing stains or of whitening fabrics, especially by the use of chemical agents. Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-bleaching-en-noun-rkGRzn9Q
  2. (linguistics) The loss or removal of part of the (semantic, grammatical, etc) content or a word or morpheme. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Linguistics
    Sense id: en-bleaching-en-noun-mStK0RjP Topics: human-sciences, linguistics, sciences
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: bleaching agent, bleaching powder, coral bleaching

Verb [English]

IPA: /ˈbliːt͡ʃɪŋ/
Rhymes: -iːtʃɪŋ Head templates: {{head|en|verb form}} bleaching
  1. present participle and gerund of bleach Tags: form-of, gerund, participle, present Form of: bleach Categories (topical): Language
    Sense id: en-bleaching-en-verb--7MK1xyA Disambiguation of Language: 37 7 57 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 37 9 54 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 30 13 56

Inflected forms

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