make pale

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Or my cheeks make pale with care, 'Cause another's rosy are?

From Tudor and Stuart Love Songs by Briscoe, John Potter

Bleach, blēch, v.t. to make pale or white: to whiten, as textile fabrics.—v.i. to grow white.—ns.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various

The meaning ½to blight¸ comes in that case from to glitter, hence, to be white or pale, grow pale, make pale, bleach.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Webster, Noah

Or make pale my cheeks with care Cause anothers Rosie are?

From A Little Book of Old Time Verse Old Fashioned Flowers by Various

I'm afraid some one has already come to make pale the beauty of the sculptress.

From Rose of Dutcher's Coolly by Garland, Hamlin