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whitewash

English

  1. 🔊 a specious or deceptive clearing that attempts to gloss over failings and defects
  2. 🔊 wash consisting of lime and size in water
  3. 🔊 a defeat in which the losing person or team fails to score
  4. 🔊 exonerate by means of a perfunctory investigation or through biased presentation of data
  5. 🔊 cover with whitewash
    “whitewash walls”
  6. 🔊 cover up a misdemeanor, fault, or error
    “Let's not whitewash the crimes of Stalin”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 jalbegue whitewash
  2. 🔊 lechada whitewash
  3. 🔊 blanquear to whitewash
  4. 🔊 lechar to whitewash
  5. 🔊 enjalbegar to whitewash, paint the face

Similar words

gloss over sleek over hush up absolve acquit allow for allowance amnesty apply paint becloud bedaub bedizen befog begild belie besmear blank blanket blind brush on paint bulldoze calcimine camouflage chalk