Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | English word WHITEWASH

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Definitions of WHITEWASH

1. A lime and water mixture for painting walls and fences bright white.
2. To paint over with a lime and water mixture so as to brighten up a wall or fence.
3. (sports) A complete victory or series of victories without suffering any losses; a clean sweep.
4. (cooking) The most basic type of thickening agent, flour blended with water to make a paste.
5. (obsolete) Any liquid composition for whitening something, such as a wash for making the skin fair.
6. (UK, slang, obsolete) A glass of sherry as a finale, after drinking port and claret.
7. (figurative) To cover over errors or bad actions.
8. (dated, transitive) To repay the financial debts of (another person).
9. (baseball, slang, dated, late, 19th century, archaic) To prevent a team from scoring any runs.
10. (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.
11. (pejorative) To make over (a person or character, a group, an event, etc) so that it is or seems more white, for example by applying makeup to a person, or by discounting the participation of people of color in an event and focusing on only white participation.
12. (politics) A campaign to paper over unfavorable elements; (everyday life) pretense.

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Examples of Using WHITEWASH in a Sentence

• Early advantages for the settlement were fertile soils and the limestone formations that were mined for the manufacture of mortar, plaster and whitewash.
• The main body of the book treats Florida's creative class theory in an introductory and neutral tone, but in a theoretical "postscript" chapter, the author criticizes what he describes as Florida's tendency to "whitewash" the negative externalities associated with creative city development.
• Greenwashing (a compound word modeled on "whitewash"), also called green sheen, is a form of advertising or marketing spin that deceptively uses green PR and green marketing to persuade the public that an organization's products, goals, or policies are environmentally friendly.
• Whitewash cures through a reaction with carbon dioxide in the atmosphere to form calcium carbonate in the form of calcite, a type of reaction generally known as carbonation or by the more specific term, carbonatation.
• Sympathetic to McCarthyism, Dondero claimed that American liberals had been responsible for a "whitewash" over the Amerasia affair.
• Spraying paint with compressed air can be traced back to its use on the Southern Pacific Railroad in the early 1880s In 1887 Joseph Binks, the maintenance supervisor at Chicago's Marshall Field's Wholesale Store developed a hand-pumped cold-water paint spraying machine to apply whitewash to the subbasement walls of the store.
• Pallister criticized this review as "little more than a whitewash", and argued that the auditors failed to include numerous ambiguous expenses.
• The club made it to the final of the 2005-06 Top 14, and despite only trailing Biarritz 9–6 at half time, Toulouse could not prevent a second-half whitewash, eventually going down 40–13.
• Inside, the lath-and-plaster ceilings were taken out but the timber roof of the aisle was preserved; whitewash and white paint were removed, the box pews were replaced by oak ones based on the design of two which had survived from the 16th century, and a stone pulpit and an oak roodloft were installed.
• He edited the 2003 anthology, Whitewash: On Keith Windschuttle's Fabrication of Aboriginal History, as a rebuttal to Keith Windschuttle's claims disputing there was genocide against Indigenous Australians and guerrilla warfare against British settlement on the continent.
• Left-wing parties, however, accused Vox of attempting to "whitewash Francoism" by associating Sanz Briz's actions with the Franco regime.
• Criticism was levelled at her from both party critics and loyalists, with the former claiming she was involved in a whitewash, and the latter claiming she was underhandedly promoting controversial Senate reform.
• Amnesty International and 16 other human rights and community organisations announced they would boycott the review in protest at the appointment of William Shawcross as its chairman as they feared a "whitewash" because of his perceived anti-Muslim political positions.
• As with freemasonry in other countries, the United Grand Lodge of England has featured as the subject of Masonic conspiracy theories; the most persistent of these attempts to link freemasonry to a "cover-up" or whitewash of the Jack the Ripper case (in some cases, conspiracy theorists have claimed that the killings were masonic ritual murder), the inquiry into the Sinking of the RMS Titanic (though Lord Mersey, Sydney Buxton and Lord Pirrie), and Bloody Sunday (though Lord Widgery).
• At the 2004 World Matchplay, Part began with a 10–0 whitewash of Colin Monk in the first round, and then beat Bob Anderson in the second round, where Part survived four match darts against him and eventually won in a tiebreak by 17–15.
• Tkachuk was involved in the Canadian Senate expenses scandal, serving as one of a three-member senate committee whose report was accused of seeking to whitewash Duffy's fallacious claims for living expenses.
• Whitewash was a mixture of lime and water which was brushed on the interior surfaces of partition walls; stucco was a longer-lasting, viscous blend of aggregate (in this case, sand) and whitewash, applied to the faces of load-bearing walls with a paleta (trowel).
• Created by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby as the Sentinels of Liberty, "a multiracial group of patriotic kids", the group was led by Bucky Barnes (Captain America's teenage sidekick), and initially made up of his four friends: Knuckles (Percival Aloysius O'Toole), Jeff (Jefferson Worthing Sandervilt), Tubby (Henry Tinkle), and Whitewash Jones (Washington Jones).
• " Republicans responded in kind, with William Jenner stating that Tydings was guilty of "the most brazen whitewash of treasonable conspiracy in our history.
• Carl Stokes and many African American community leaders called the grand jury report a whitewash designed to insulate and absolve the Locher administration.

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