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— English words —

• whitewash n. A lime and water mixture for painting walls and fences bright white.
• whitewash n. (Sports) A complete victory or series of victories without suffering any losses; a clean sweep.
• whitewash n. (Politics) A campaign to paper over unfavorable elements.
• whitewash n. (Cooking) The most basic type of thickening agent, flour blended with water to make a paste.
• whitewash n. (Obsolete) Any liquid composition for whitening something, such as a wash for making the skin fair.
• whitewash n. (UK, slang, obsolete) A glass of sherry as a finale, after drinking port and claret.
• whitewash v. To paint over with a lime and water mixture so as to brighten up a wall or fence.
• whitewash v. (Figurative) To cover over errors or bad actions.
• whitewash v. (Dated, transitive) To repay the financial debts of (another person).
• whitewash v. (Baseball, slang, dated, late, 19th century, archaic) To prevent a team from scoring any runs.
• whitewash v. (US, UK, slang) In various games, to defeat (an opponent) so that they fail to score, or to reach a…
• whitewash v. (Derogatory) To make over (a person or character, a group, an event, etc) so that it is or seems more…

— English words, defined in French —

• whitewash n. Lait de chaux.
• whitewash n. (Sens figuré) (Sport) Jeu blanc, blanchissage.
• whitewash v. Blanchir à la chaux.
• whitewash v. (Sens figuré) Blanchir, dissimuler.
• whitewash v. (Cinéma) (Cinématographie) Dans un film ou à la télévision, choisir des acteurs blancs pour jouer des…

— English words, defined in Spanish —

• whitewash v. Encalar.
• whitewash v. Blanquear.
• whitewash v. Encubrir.

109 English words from 12 English definitions

actions after agent and another any archaic as␣to bad Baseball basic blended bright brighten brighten␣up campaign century character claret clean clean␣sweep complete composition Cooking cover dated debts defeat Derogatory drinking elements errors etc event fail fair fence fences Figurative finale financial flour for from games glass group late lime liquid losses make make␣over making mixture more most obsolete opponent over over␣with paint painting paper paper␣over paste person Politics port prevent reach repay runs score scoring seems series sherry skin slang so␣as so␣as␣to something so␣that Sports such such␣as suffering sweep team that the they thickening thickening␣agent transitive type unfavorable various victories victory wall walls wash water white whitening with without

11 English words from 8 foreign definitions

à␣la blanc blancs Dans des dissimuler film Lait pour Sens Sport

15 foreign words from 8 foreign definitions

acteurs Blanchir blanchissage Blanquear chaux choisir Cinéma Cinématographie figuré Jeu Jeu␣blanc jouer Lait␣de␣chaux Sens␣figuré télévision

7 suffixes (New words found by adding one or more letters at the end of the word.)

whitewashed whitewasher whitewashes whitewashers whitewashing whitewashable whitewashings

One time in the middle (New word found by adding letters in front and at the end of the word.)

unwhitewashed

23 words-in-word (Words found as is inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

ash Ash hit HIT Hite ITE -ite tew Tew Tewa Tewas was Was WAs wash Wash WASH -wash Wash. whit Whit white White

10 words-in-word RTL (Words found written from right to left, inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

awe Awe ETI Hsa. saw Saw SAW sawe wet WET

2 anagrams found with an extra letter (New words formed with all the letters from the word and an extra letter.)

washed␣with washes␣with

2 anagrams found minus a letter (New words formed with all the letters from the word minus a letter.)

wash␣with wheatish

3 cousins (New words found by changing only one letter.)

whitelash white-lash white␣lash

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