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bleachings

bleachings is the plural of bleaching.

Meaning of bleaching

Noun

bleaching (countable and uncountable, plural bleachings)

  1. The process of removing stains or of whitening fabrics, especially by the use of chemical agents.
  2. The loss or removal of part of the (semantic, grammatical, etc) content or a word or morpheme.
    • Grammaticalization is often associated with 'semantic bleaching', and this 'bleaching' is the result of reanalysis […] But there is no evidence that the bleaching of the meaning of do played any role in the causation of this sequence of events.2000, Frederick J. Newmeyer, Language Form and Language Function, MIT Press, →ISBN, page 249

Phrases with bleachings

Questions about bleachings

What is bleachings the plural of?
Bleachings is the plural of bleaching.

Words near bleachings in the dictionary

  1. bleaching
  2. bleaching agent
  3. bleaching agents
  4. bleaching powder
  5. bleaching powders
  6. bleachings
  7. bleachjob
  8. bleachjobs
  9. bleachless
  10. bleachlike
  11. bleachman

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