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whiten

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1. whiten - Verb

2. Whiten - Proper noun

Meaning

To grow white; to turn or become white or whiter; as, the hair whitens with age; the sea whitens with foam; the trees in spring whiten with blossoms.

To make white; to bleach; to blanch; to whitewash; as, to whiten a wall; to whiten cloth.

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I wield the flail of the lashing hail, And whiten the green plains under And then again I dissolve it in rain, And laugh as I pass in thunder. Percy Bysshe Shelley

Who blackens others, does not whiten himself. German Proverb

To whiten ivory with dye is to spoil nature by art. Latin Proverb

The bath has sworn not to whiten the blackamoor. Spanish Proverb

This detergent will whiten your laundry Source: Internet

In linear prediction coding, the all-pole filter replaces the bandpass filter bank of its predecessor and is used at the encoder to whiten the signal (i. Source: Internet

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