Usually means: Cover up flaws or mistakes.
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  1. whitewash: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. whitewash: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. whitewash: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. whitewash: Collins English Dictionary
  5. whitewash: Vocabulary.com
  6. Whitewash, whitewash: Wordnik
  7. whitewash: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. whitewash: Wiktionary
  9. whitewash: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. whitewash: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. whitewash: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. whitewash: Dictionary.com
  13. whitewash (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. whitewash: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Whitewash (TV special), Whitewash (book), Whitewash (censorship), Whitewash (disambiguation), Whitewash (sport), Whitewash: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Whitewash: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. whitewash: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. whitewash: Rhymezone
  19. Whitewash: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. whitewash: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. whitewash: Free Dictionary
  22. whitewash: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. whitewash: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. whitewash: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
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Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. whitewash: Wordcraft Dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. whitewash, whitewash: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)

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noun:  A lime and water mixture for painting walls and fences bright white.
noun:  (sports) A complete victory or series of victories without suffering any losses; a clean sweep.
noun:  (politics) A campaign to paper over unfavorable elements; (everyday life) pretense.
noun:  (cooking) The most basic type of thickening agent, flour blended with water to make a paste.
noun:  (obsolete) Any liquid composition for whitening something, such as a wash for making the skin fair.
noun:  (UK, slang, obsolete) A glass of sherry as a finale, after drinking port and claret.
verb:  (transitive) To paint over with a lime and water mixture so as to brighten up a wall or fence.
verb:  (transitive, figurative) To cover over errors or bad actions.
verb:  (dated, transitive) To repay the financial debts of (another person).
verb:  (baseball, slang, dated, late, 19th century, archaic) To prevent a team from scoring any runs.
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.
verb:  (derogatory) 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.

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