whitewash
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whitewash (plural whitewashes)
- a lime and water mixture for painting walls and fences bright white.
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- 1952: For walls plaster gave a smooth white surface; or if it was not sufficiently white, or had become discoloured, it could be brightened up with a coat of whitewash or paint. — L.F. Salzman, Building in England, p. 157.
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- A victory without reply
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- French: lait de chaux
- Russian: белила ru(ru) (belíla) n. pl.
- Serbian: belilo n., kreč m.
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to whitewash (third-person singular simple present whitewashes, present participle whitewashing, simple past and past participle whitewashed)
- To paint over with a lime and water mixture so as to brighten up a wall or fence.
- The houses looked very bright when they whitewashed the whole neighborhood.
- (idiomatic) To cover over errors or bad actions.
- In his sermon, the minister didn't try to whitewash over the sins of his church.
- (baseball, slang, dated, late, 19th century, archaic) To prevent a team from scoring any runs.
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