to whitewash

Examples

• All

• She was gonna make me whitewash that old fence again.

  The Adventures of Mark Twain (1985)

• Every time I visit my father, I offer to whitewash the whole house.

  Fiction book (1994)

• My folks were too poor to paint and too proud to whitewash.

  Eddie (1996)

• If you do, I'll trick the neighborhood kids into whitewashing it.

  Max (2015)

• In general, the style calls for the walls to be whitewashed, and then the effect can be quite pleasing.

  Fiction book (1994)

• Nancy turned from the chickens and quickly climbed the short, steep bank towards the whitewashed brick farmhouse.

  Fiction book (1993)

• I hurried down the far line of bulbs, scrabbling over the whitewashed stones, and met Pete in the middle.

  Fiction book (1995)

• The darkest houses and those lacking aeration had to be whitewashed by painters who had survived the contagion.

  Academic text (2013)

• Here and there were basements newly whitewashed, roofs and chimneys newly tuck-pointed, but otherwise it was unchanged.

  Fiction book (1995)

• To improve the school environment, they decided to whitewash the old walls of the building.

Synonyms

W

to whiten

vsto whitewash

10 2.8

Make or become more white in color

is a process of applying a pale liquid to surfaces not merely changing color

W

to white

vsto whitewash

1 5.9

To make something very light in color

is identical in meaning but appears in a different word form in text

C

to calcimine

vsto whitewash

• Archaic

9.9

To cover walls and ceilings with a thin paint made with water

is the general mixture used to make surfaces paler and disinfect them

Phrasal Verbs

W

to whitewash the scandal

1 7.5

To try to hide a scandal by giving wrong information to the public

W

to whitewash the issues

1 8.4

To hide problems or make them seem less serious

How Coated

to whitewash

2 4.3

to calcimine

• Archaic

9.9

wash

• Specialized

8 6.7

to stain

46 3.2

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology