whitewashed
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- adjective
- /ˈwaɪtˌwɔʃt/
:
blanqueado
- So Odysseus is perhaps not the whitewashed hero that the Odyssey would seem to make him.
Rear of the screen towered over the palm tree like a second sky around the complex stretch, the whitewashed wall.
- Rear of the screen towered over the palm tree like a second sky around the complex stretch, the whitewashed wall.
- And every single fucking time the screws come out whitewashed.
Examples
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Dean Waters' office is in Starr Hall, in a spacious, whitewashed room with bowed creaking floorboards that, if not original, can only be one or two generations removed.
Fiction book (1998) -
Dr. Rudolph cleaned up in a whitewashed outdoor shower behind the house.
Fiction book (1995) -
No more non whitewashed coffee for you.
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So I would just say like, sheltered, whitewashed, very strict.
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I think these ones are from Love and Gray, the kind of like whitewashed rustic Beech wood items.
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Like, if that's been the case, that's just being completely whitewashed, almost entirely whitewashed from what I've seen.
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Even as a high school student reading the whitewashed version of Woodrow Wilson, I detected an arrogant, insufferable peachiness about the man.
Blog text (27) -
So the rude screen, it's a painting of Saints which has been whitewashed and then overpainted in blackletter script with texts from Cranmer's Bible.
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Such whitewashed and coral rock multistory mansions were associated with the Zanzibari Omani Arab elite during this period, and their interior display logics were an amalgamation of diverse cultural strands.
Academic text (2009) -
The old barn was painted a fresh coat of whitewashed to brighten the landscape.
Synonyms
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To cover walls with a thin white paint made from lime and water
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Very pale because sunlight or chemicals removed its color
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A white color like fresh milk
Hair or beard that is white because of age
A pure bright white color like fresh paint
How Covered
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Whitewashed comes from the simple parts white and wash because people used to 'wash' walls with a white paint made from lime and water to make them bright and clean. So a whitewashed wall is literally covered with a white coating.