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
A high whitewashed wall separated the campus area from the surrounding neighborhood.
Wide boulevards lined with rows of saluting trees and whitewashed iconic buildings are hosts to parades of picture savvy tourists and endless calculated circulation.
The bereaved parents were outraged at the army's tendency to play down the severity of the accidents and to establish internal investigative commissions, which often whitewashed the incidents.
If there is anything in these allegations, the public should know, and if there is not, there should be no fear of somebody being whitewashed.
It is essential that the rogue should not be whitewashed in the action.
Cowsheds have to be whitewashed or lime washed twice a year.
The changing facilities comprised little more than a cubicle in a converted whitewashed cowshed.
I started in a small factory with nothing but the whitewashed walls.
