[{"word":"bleaching","phonetic":"/ˈbliːtʃɪŋ/","phonetics":[{"text":"/ˈbliːtʃɪŋ/","audio":""}],"meanings":[{"partOfSpeech":"verb","definitions":[{"definition":"To treat with bleach, especially so as to whiten (fabric, paper, etc.) or lighten (hair).","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"To be whitened or lightened (by the sun, for example).","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"(of corals) to lose color due to stress-induced expulsion of symbiotic unicellular algae.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[],"example":"Once coral bleaching begins, corals tend to continue to bleach even if the stressor is removed."},{"definition":"To make meaningless; to divest of meaning; to make empty.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[],"example":"semantically bleached words that have become illocutionary particles"}],"synonyms":["blanch"],"antonyms":[]},{"partOfSpeech":"noun","definitions":[{"definition":"The process of removing stains or of whitening fabrics, especially by the use of chemical agents.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"The loss or removal of part of the (semantic, grammatical, etc) content or a word or morpheme.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]}],"synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]}],"license":{"name":"CC BY-SA 3.0","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0"},"sourceUrls":["https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bleach","https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bleaching"]}]