whitewash
whitewash is a 9-letter English word with 10 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Any wash or liquid composition for whitening something, as a wash for making the skin fair. Face value is 21 in Scrabble and 19 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- noun. Any wash or liquid composition for whitening something, as a wash for making the skin fair.
- noun. A composition of line and water, or of whiting size, and water, or the like, used for whitening walls, ceilings, etc.; milk of lime.
- transitive verb. To apply a white liquid composition to; to whiten with whitewash.
- transitive verb. To make white; to give a fair external appearance to; to clear from imputations or disgrace; hence, to clear (a bankrupt) from obligation to pay debts.
- noun. a specious or deceptive clearing that attempts to gloss over failings and defects
- noun. wash consisting of lime and size in water; used for whitening walls and other surfaces
- noun. a defeat in which the losing person or team fails to score
- verb. exonerate by means of a perfunctory investigation or through biased presentation of data
- verb. cover with whitewash
"whitewash walls"
- verb. cover up a misdemeanor, fault, or error
"Let's not whitewash the crimes of Stalin"
"She tried to gloss over her mistakes"
Common word forms
whitewashed, whitewasher, whitewashes, whitewashing
Words from these letters
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