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Definitioner
Substantiv
- A lime and water mixture for painting walls and fences bright white.
- (sports) A complete victory or series of victories without suffering any losses; a clean sweep.
- (obsolete) Any liquid composition for whitening something, such as a wash for making the skin fair.
Verb
- To paint over with a lime and water mixture so as to brighten up a wall or fence.
- (idiomatic) To cover over errors or bad actions.
- (dated, transitive) To repay the financial debts of (another person).
- (baseball, slang, dated, late, 19th century, archaic) To prevent a team from scoring any runs.
- (acting) To choose white film or television actors to portray characters that were Asian, African, or other races.
- (pejorative) To make over (an Asian, African, or person of another race, especially a woman) to look Caucasian.
Exempel
- 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.
- For the first time in a long time, Australia are being threatened with the prospect of a 5-0 whitewash
- The houses looked very bright when they whitewashed the whole neighborhood.
- In his sermon, the minister didn't try to whitewash over the sins of his church.
- Meanwhile, Sam, having been formally introduced to the whitewashed gentleman and his friends, as the offspring of Mr. Weller, of the Belle Savage, was treated with marked distinction, and invited to regale himself with them in honour of the occasion—an invitation which he was by no means backward in accepting.
- At least the Star Trek of old had an actor of color playing Khan, because now he's been whitewashed into oblivion.
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