Overview of verb whitewash

The verb whitewash has 3 senses

• whitewash, gloss over, sleek over, hush up -- (cover up a misdemeanor, fault, or error; "Let's not whitewash the crimes of Stalin"; "She tried to gloss over her mistakes")


• whitewash -- (cover with whitewash; "whitewash walls")


• whitewash -- (exonerate by means of a perfunctory investigation or through biased presentation of data)

Overview of adj whitewashed

The adj whitewashed has 1 sense

• whitewashed -- (coated with whitewash; "miles of whitewashed fences")