whiten

Speech parts

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.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

frost white blanch pale fade bleach lighten turn white make pale make white wash whiting whitewash grizzle silver
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Antonyms

blacken fleck mark brown black beach
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Hypernyms

color colour discolor discolour

Hyponyms

bleach

Derivatives

whitened whitening

Examples

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

Close letter words and terms

whiteman's foot whitemanity Whitemoor Whitenack whitened whitener