The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word BLEACH
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More clues leading to the result BLEACH
- It whitens stretch of shore round front of lake
- Make pale student enter lido
- A chemical that’s partly unstable, a chloride
- Leading lady in seafront but it won’t get her a tan
- Humble achievement has to fade
- Make pale ale somehow in British church
- To lighten, quarter of load’s dumped in sand
- Turn white left in place where you’d usually do the opposite
- Book extract to make light of?
- Lighten lingerie originally in maroon
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What does BLEACH mean?
BLEACH adjective- Pale; bleak.
- A chemical, such as sodium hypochlorite or hydrogen peroxide, or a preparation of such a chemical, used for disinfecting or whitening.
- A variety of bleach.
- To treat with bleach, especially so as to whiten (fabric, paper, etc.) or lighten (hair).
- To be whitened or lightened (by the sun, for example).
- (of corals) to lose color due to stress-induced expulsion of symbiotic unicellular algae.
- To make meaningless; to divest of meaning; to make empty.
- An act of bleaching; exposure to the sun.
- A disease of the skin.