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whitewash
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whitewash as in:  whitewash the fence

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    She whitewashed the brick wall to brighten the room without completely hiding its texture.
    whitewashed = painted with a see-through white
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    She even helped whitewash the school walls, holding up the lanterns so they could paint when the light went off in power cuts.  (source)
    whitewash = paint white
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    Applying whitewash was lonely work—the old farmer had stopped appearing as soon as the last of the junk was out.  (source)
    whitewash = white paint
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    They stood outside Frau Diller's, against the whitewashed wall.  (source)
    whitewashed = painted with a see-through white
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    Without telling anyone, one night she painted her room carnation pink, first a whitewash and then two coats of the pink.  (source)
    whitewash = white paint
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    Jeremy's eyes were a whitewashed blue and they seemed to weep when he spoke.  (source)
    whitewashed = pale
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    Dundee Village, where Wes's new home was located, was a collection of connected, whitewashed homes.  (source)
    whitewashed = painted with a see-through white
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    On their first night there her brother had plucked the stiff horse hairs out of the freshly whitewashed walls and run his fingers along the toothmarks on top of the double Dutch door where the wood was soft and worn.  (source)
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    The faint smell of manure was everywhere, but the walls were whitewashed and the dirt floor swept clean.  (source)
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    The Western Market was a great square of beaten earth surrounded by warrens of mud-baked brick, animal pens, whitewashed drinking halls.  (source)
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    These whitewashed cinder-block walls.  (source)
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    Whitewashed brick, black lacquer shutters, gaslight, and ivy.  (source)
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    Then Roger noticed that, although the pond looked lovely, there was a faint but definite odor of putridity hanging around it ...and the small house on the rock in the center of the pond was whitewashed not with paint but with gullshit.  (source)
    whitewashed = covered with a see-through white
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whitewash as in:  investigative whitewash

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The government was accused of trying to whitewash the scandal by downplaying its severity.
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    She didn’t want to whitewash the truth, even if it made people uncomfortable.
    whitewash = hide
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    We once talked about where Jesus speaks to these hypocrites, telling them that even though they look clean on the outside, it's just whitewash—they're just bones and stuff on the inside.  (source)
    whitewash = covering up something bad
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    Her tone made it obvious that the whitewashing had accomplished nothing.†  (source)
    whitewashing = covering up (to hide a wrong)
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    He also swept the floors, whitewashed the walls and cleaned the bathrooms.†  (source)
    whitewashed = hid
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    Dr. Neu didn't try to whitewash what had happened.†  (source)
    whitewash = cover up (a wrong or error)
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    He watched—and this would later prove to be his special area of interest—the teeming dry docks, the towering, mammoth cadavers of ships that had sailed to Asia and Africa, but now lay braced on strutbeams thick as trees, looking monstrous and clumsy on dry land, their keels and screws naked, swarmed over by hosts of midget laborers— hammering, scouring, whitewashing.†  (source)
    whitewashing = covering up (to hide a wrong)
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    In good society that always whitewashes a woman.†  (source)
    whitewashes = covers up (to hide a wrong)
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    The landlady's lively speech was received with greater favour at the Break of Day, than it would have elicited from certain amiable whitewashers of the class she so unreasonably objected to, nearer Great Britain.†  (source)
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    Inside, it was to be whitewashed.†  (source)
    whitewashed = hid
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    The whitewashed stone archway was gone; so was the notion of whitewash.†  (source)
    whitewash = cover up (a wrong or error)
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    And he was again invited to dinner at the McGurks', not by Capitola but by Ross McGurk, whose name had never had such a whitewashing.†  (source)
    whitewashing = covering up (to hide a wrong)
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    The priest whitewashes them, the archdeacon scrapes them down; then the populace arrives and demolishes them.†  (source)
    whitewashes = covers up (to hide a wrong)
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    Bill and Fleur's cottage stood alone on a cliff overlooking the sea, its walls embedded with shells and whitewashed.†  (source)
    whitewashed = hid
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