whitened
past simple and past participle ofwhiten
whiten
verb[IorT]
uk/ˈwaɪ.tən/us/ˈwaɪ.t̬ən/to make orbecomewhiter:
She had her nicotine-stainedteethwhitened.
Herhairhad whitened over theyears.
Black, white & grey
- coal black
- dove grey
- ebony
- gray
- grey
- greyish
- greyness
- gunmetal grey
- jet black
- lily-white
- non-colour
- noncoloured
- pearl
- pearly
- sombre
- sombrely
- sooty
- steel-gray
- whiten
- whiteness
Examplesofwhitened
whitened
In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
The dwellings were rectangular and their exterior walls werewhitenedwith either a wash of clay or with lime.
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From the perspective of applying our test, we do not require a model of best fit; we only require that the data have beenwhitened.
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Each of them has black eyeliner providing lift at the edge of the eyes and each wears the same coral lipstick to set off the same straightened andwhitenedteeth.
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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.
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However, we should remember that that jungle path is littered withwhitenedbones.
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Separators are used so much that the milk purchased at such an increased price is simplywhitenedwater.
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He visibly blanched: he definitelywhitened.
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He talks with the three fish about coral that have suffered from coral bleaching, while thewhitenedcoral appears on screen.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The surface around iswhitenedwith fields of alkali resembling fields of snow.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Dried in the open air, the wax waswhitenedby sunlight.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The walls were fourteen inches (356mm) wide, plastered andwhitenedwith lime.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Preferably, the modulating data bits are scrambled orwhitenedto randomize the occurrences of ones and zeros.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.All the walls were sealed and werewhitenedwith lime.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Ratings and sailors were issued black, brown, andwhitenedleather low laced shoes matching the dress uniforms worn on active service, walking-out or formal occasions.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The raw output rate is tens to hundreds of megabits per second, and thewhitenedrate is a few megabits per second.
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- rational basis
- rational choice
- rational conclusion
- rational consideration
- rational creature
- rational debate
- rational decision
- rational discourse
- rational discussion
- rationale
- rational expectation
- rational explanation
- rational ignorance
- rational individual
- rational inquiry
- rationalism
- rationalist
- rationality
- rationalization
- rationalize
- rationalized
- rationalizing
- rational judgment
- rational justification
- rationally