WHITEN meaning: Make or become lighter, brighter

We found 26 dictionaries that define the word WHITEN:

General (24 matching dictionaries)

whiten: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
whiten: Merriam-Webster
whiten: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
whiten: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
whiten: Collins English Dictionary
whiten: Vocabulary.com
Whiten, whiten: Wordnik
whiten: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
Whiten, whiten: Wiktionary
whiten: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
whiten: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
whiten: Infoplease Dictionary
whiten: Dictionary.com
whiten: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
Whiten: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
whiten: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
whiten: Rhymezone
Whiten: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
whiten: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
whiten: FreeDictionary.org
whiten: Mnemonic Dictionary
whiten: TheFreeDictionary.com

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whiten: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Whiten)

▸ verb:  (ergative) (To cause) to become white or whiter; to bleach or blanch.
▸ verb:  (cryptography) To increase the security of an iterated block cipher by steps that combine the data with portions of the key.
▸ noun:  A surname.

Similar:

white, Blanch, emblanch, bleach, chalk, decolour, whitelime, whitify, blench, etiolate, more...

Types:

Clorox, Lysol, Mr. Clean, OxiClean, Tide, more...

Phrases:

Mark Whiten, long tubes of whiten pasta, to whiten, more...

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