0 past simple and past participle of whitewash
1 to make something bad seem acceptable by hiding the truth:
The department is trying to whitewash their incompetence.
2 to defeat a player or team completely, especially while preventing them from scoring any points
3 to paint walls or buildings using whitewash
There is no power to cause offices to be decorated, even whitewashed, and, as one knows from experience, the effect is very depressing.
Certainly it is one of the biggest and most whitewashed.
We also know that there had been a police inquiry into that conduct and that he had been whitewashed by his police superiors.
Coal may sometimes be whitewashed to mark the edge of a coal dump for safety hi the dark or as a check against pilfering.
They keep the mine roads completely and wholly whitewashed.
I think there are a lot of things that might be whitewashed, but not that.
The walls were whitewashed, or rather lime-washed, a dirty dark blue.
I started in a small factory with nothing but the whitewashed walls.
