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financial
greenwash
fence
pinkwash
gloss over
wallop
whitewashed
loss
clean sweep
whiting
whitelime
victory
repay
bright
blackwash
white
debt
skunk
bluewash
mixture
calcimine
painting
lime
paper over
make over
water
whitewasher
unwhitewashed
whitewashing
people of color
brownwash
whitewashes
Definitions:
Noun
whitewash
Definition: a defeat in which the losing person or team fails to score
whitewash
Definition: wash consisting of lime and size in water; used for whitening walls and other surfaces
whitewash
Definition: a specious or deceptive clearing that attempts to gloss over failings and defects
Definition: A lime and water mixture for painting walls and fences bright white.
Verb
whitewash
gloss over
sleek over
hush up
Definition: cover up a misdemeanor, fault, or error; "Let's not whitewash the crimes of Stalin"; "She tried to gloss over her mistakes"
whitewash
Definition: cover with whitewash; "whitewash walls"
whitewash
Definition: exonerate by means of a perfunctory investigation or through biased presentation of data
Definition: To paint over with a lime and water mixture so as to brighten up a wall or fence.