1 to make something whiter, or to become whiter: --
[ T ] This toothpaste is supposed to whiten your teeth.
As a strong bleaching agent, it is used in hair dye substances as whitening agent with hydrogen peroxide.
The meaning of blanching is to whiten, but this is not always the purpose of blanching in cooking.
It feeds on developing grass seeds, causing seed heads to shrivel and prematurely whiten.
He visibly blanched: he definitely whitened.
Upon accession, our situation was deemed acceptable, although it was stressed that work still needed to be done to whiten our economy and rid our public administration of corruption.
Canessa argues that women become more ' masculinized ' and independent as a result of their husbands' seasonal migration, but not ' whitened' as men are in the army.
But in what way and to what extent do teachers actually represent the state, act to incorporate the local into the national, and participate in its civilising and whitening project?
Ishmael makes no reference to whiteness as a racial signifier.