Associations to the word «Whitewashed»

WHITEWASH, noun. A lime and water mixture for painting walls and fences bright white.

WHITEWASH, noun. (sports) A complete victory or series of victories without suffering any losses; a clean sweep.

WHITEWASH, noun. (obsolete) Any liquid composition for whitening something, such as a wash for making the skin fair.

WHITEWASH, verb. To paint over with a lime and water mixture so as to brighten up a wall or fence.

WHITEWASH, verb. (idiomatic) To cover over errors or bad actions.

WHITEWASH, verb. (dated) (transitive) To repay the financial debts of (another person).

WHITEWASH, verb. (baseball) (slang) (dated) (late) (19th century) (archaic) To prevent a team from scoring any runs.

WHITEWASH, verb. (US) (UK) (slang) In various games, to defeat (an opponent) so that they fail to score, or to reach a certain point in the game; to skunk.

WHITEWASH, verb. (acting) To choose white film or television actors to portray characters that were Asian, African, or other races.

WHITEWASH, verb. (pejorative) To make over (an Asian, African, or person of another race, especially a woman) to look Caucasian.

WHITEWASH, verb. (pejorative) To cover over the history or nature of (an event, etc) in which people of colour participated, so as to focus on only white participation in it; to rewrite (history) in a way that erases the contribution of people of colour.

WHITEWASH, noun. A defeat in which the losing person or team fails to score.

WHITEWASH, noun. Wash consisting of lime and size in water; used for whitening walls and other surfaces.

WHITEWASH, noun. A specious or deceptive clearing that attempts to gloss over failings and defects.

WHITEWASH, verb. Cover up a misdemeanor, fault, or error; "Let's not whitewash the crimes of Stalin"; "She tried to gloss over her mistakes".

WHITEWASH, verb. Cover with whitewash; "whitewash walls".

WHITEWASH, verb. Exonerate by means of a perfunctory investigation or through biased presentation of data.