whitewash
Nouns
- (n) a defeat in which the losing person or team fails to score
- (n) wash consisting of lime and size in water; used for whitening walls and other surfaces
- (n) a specious or deceptive clearing that attempts to gloss over failings and defects
Verbs
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(v) cover up a misdemeanor, fault, or error
- Let's not whitewash the crimes of Stalin
- She tried to gloss over her mistakes
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(v) cover with whitewash
- whitewash walls
- (v) exonerate by means of a perfunctory investigation or through biased presentation of data