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v. To make or become white or whiter, especially by bleaching.

v. To make white or whiter; to bleach or blanch.

v. To become white or whiter; to bleach or blanch.

verb-intransitive. To grow white; to turn or become white or whiter

v. To make white; to bleach; to blanch; to whitewash.

To become white; turn white; bleach: as, the sea whitens with foam.

To make white; bleach; blanch; whitewash: as, to whiten cloth; to whiten a wall.

Synonyms Whiten, Bleach, Blanch, Etiolate. Whiten may be a general word for making white, but is chiefly used for the putting of a white coating upon a surface: as, a wall whitened by the application of lime; the sea, whitened by the wind. White for whiten is old-fashioned or Biblical. Bleach and blanch express the act of making white by removal, change, or destruction of color. Bleaching is done chemically or by exposure to light and air: as, to bleach linen or bones. Blanching is a natural process: celery and other plants are blanched or etiolated by excluding light from them; cheeks are blanched by fear, when the blood retires from their capillaries and leaves them pale. See also defs. 5 and 6 under blanch.

v. turn white

"Some of the ire towards the hiring of Placas is the concern that she will "whiten" "Essence" up, thus destroying the inimitable girlfriend-to-girlfriend style, complexion, and tone of the magazine."

blacken   

whitened    whitening    whitens   

colour    color    discolour    discolor   

bleach   

whitened    whitening   

blanch    bleach    whitewash    white    dealbate    blench    pale    etiolate    besnow    grizzle   

Brighton    Titan    Triton    brighten    enlighten    frighten    heighten    lighten    tighten    titan   

fleshless    char    till    coiffed    bronzed    knobby    wither    moisten    clench    bleach