1 to make something whiter, or to become whiter:
[ T ] This toothpaste is supposed to whiten your teeth.
The dwellings were rectangular and their exterior walls were whitened with either a wash of clay or with lime.
Assortative mating in relation to phenotype operates but is complicated by the fact that money whitens the skin.
In racial terms, their ideal moved from whitening (embranquecimento) towards racial democracy.
From the perspective of applying our test, we do not require a model of best fit; we only require that the data have been whitened.
Each of them has black eyeliner providing lift at the edge of the eyes and each wears the same coral lipstick to set off the same straightened and whitened teeth.
Whiten is right about the dissatisfying lack of closure sometimes inherent in the ethnographic approach, its principal weakness.
Whiten et al. (1999) published an updated and careful examination of behavioral differences between several populations of chimpanzees.
Ishmael makes no reference to whiteness as a racial signifier.
