Whiten

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Whiten \Whit"en\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Whitened}; p. pr. & vb.
     n. {Whitening}.] [OE. whitenen; cf. Icel. hv[imac]tna.]
     To grow white; to turn or become white or whiter; as, the
     hair whitens with age; the sea whitens with foam; the trees
     in spring whiten with blossoms.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Whiten \Whit"en\, v. t.
     To make white; to bleach; to blanch; to whitewash; as, to
     whiten a wall; to whiten cloth.
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           The broad stream of the Foyle then whitened by vast
           flocks of wild swans.                    --Macaulay.
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     Syn: See {Blanch}.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  whiten
       v : turn white; "This detergent will whiten your laundry" [syn:
           {white}] [ant: {blacken}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  79 Moby Thesaurus words for "whiten":
     achromatize, besnow, blanch, bleach, bleach out, blench, blush,
     bowdlerize, chalk, change color, clean, clean out, clean up,
     cleanse, clear out, color, crimson, darken, decolor, decolorize,
     delouse, depurate, deterge, dim, discolor, drain, drain of color,
     dry-clean, dull, dust, dust off, etiolate, expurgate, extenuate,
     fade, fade out, flush, freshen, frost, fume, gloss over, glow,
     grizzle, grow pale, lighten, look black, lose color, lustrate,
     mantle, pale, peroxide, purge, purify, redden, reform, scavenge,
     silver, spruce, steam-clean, sugarcoat, sweep out, sweeten,
     tarnish, tidy, tone down, turn color, turn pale, turn red,
     turn white, varnish, veneer, wan, wash out, white, whitewash, wipe,
     wipe off, wipe out, wipe up