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  "type": "wiki",
  "pronunciations": {
    "phonetic": [
      "bli\u02a7"
    ],
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        "lang": "Audio (US)",
        "url": "/var/www/html/blab/dic/audio/us/bleach.ogg"
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        "lang": "Audio (US)",
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    "etymologies": [
      "From Middle English bleche (also bleke), from Old English bl\u01e3\u010b, bl\u01e3c, variants of bl\u0101c (\u201cbright, shining, glittering\u201d), from Proto-West Germanic *blaik, from Proto-Germanic *blaikaz (\u201cpale, shining\u201d). More at bleak.",
      "From Middle English blechen, from Old English bl\u01e3\u010ban (\u201cto bleach, whiten\u201d), from Proto-West Germanic *blaikijan, from Proto-Germanic *blaikijan\u0105, from Proto-Indo-European *b\u02b0el- (\u201cto shine\u201d). \nCognate with Dutch bleken (\u201cto bleach\u201d), German bleichen (\u201cto bleach\u201d), Danish blege, Swedish bleka (\u201cto bleach\u201d). Related to Old English bl\u0101c (\u201cpale\u201d) (English blake; compare also bleak).",
      "From Middle English bleche, from Old English bl\u01e3\u010bu, bl\u01e3\u010bo (\u201cpaleness, pallor\u201d), from Proto-Germanic *blaik\u012f\u0304 (\u201cpaleness\u201d). See Etymology 1 above.",
      "From Middle English bleche, from Old English bl\u01e3\u010be (\u201cirritation of the skin, leprosy; psoriasis\u201d)."
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        "name": "Adjective",
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            "mean": "(archaic) Pale; bleak."
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        "name": "Verb",
        "meanlist": [
          {
            "mean": "(transitive) To treat with bleach, especially so as to whiten (fabric, paper, etc.) or lighten (hair)."
          },
          {
            "mean": "(intransitive) To be whitened or lightened (by the sun, for example)."
          },
          {
            "mean": "(intransitive, biology, of corals) To lose color due to stress-induced expulsion of symbiotic unicellular algae.\nOnce coral bleaching begins, corals tend to continue to bleach even if the stressor is removed."
          },
          {
            "mean": "(transitive, figuratively) To make meaningless; to divest of meaning; to make empty.\nsemantically bleached words that have become illocutionary particles"
          }
        ]
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        "name": "Noun",
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          {
            "mean": "(uncountable) A chemical, such as sodium hypochlorite or hydrogen peroxide, or a preparation of such a chemical, used for disinfecting or whitening."
          },
          {
            "mean": "(countable) A variety of bleach."
          }
        ]
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      {
        "name": "Noun_2",
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          {
            "mean": "An act of bleaching; exposure to the sun."
          }
        ]
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      {
        "name": "Noun_3",
        "meanlist": [
          {
            "mean": "(obsolete) A disease of the skin characterized by hypopigmentation and itching, believed in the 17th century to be a form a leprosy."
          }
        ]
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        "name": "Anagrams",
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            "mean": "Blecha, balche, balch\u00e9"
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