Bleach
Bleach verb - To make white or whiter by removing color.
Usage example: bleached the stained shirt back to its original white
Paint
Paint verb - To give color or a different color to.
Usage example: I've decided to paint the bathroom walls purple
Common collocations
| face | bleach face | paint face |
Both words in one sentence
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It's usually unintentional: a female black cat inadvertently gets a stripe of paint/whitewash/bleach or something; cue Pepe catching sight of her.
Source: Ass in a Lion Skin -
In Bleach, Mayuri Kurotsuchi of all people gets a shower scene where we find that under all his war paint he is actually hot.
Source: Beautiful All Along -
Brain Bleach: Fletcher needed this in an episode in which he had to paint the principal in an extremely skimpy Catholic school girl uniform.
Source: Series / A.N.T. Farm
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