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▸ 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.
Similar:
gloss over,
hush up,
exoneration,
vindication,
sleek over,
whitening,
whitener,
wash,
blackwash,
whitenization,
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Opposite:
Types:
lime wash,
distemper,
milk paint,
whitewash powder,
acrylic paint,
chalk paint,
plaster paint,
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