WHITEN Synonyms

• the whiteness that results from removing the color from something

• an agent that makes things white or colorless

• the act of whitening something by bleaching it (exposing it to sunlight or using a chemical bleaching agent)

• cause to become white or lighter in color

• make whiter or lighter

• make clear and (more) comprehensible

• make clear by removing impurities or solids, as by heating

• cause to become white or lighter in color

• lose color or turn colorless

• cause to lose or change color

• change color, often in an undesired manner

• a golf shot that curves to the right for a right-handed golfer

• gradually ceasing to be visible

• become less clearly visible or distinguishable; disappear gradually or seemingly

• lose freshness, vigor, or vitality

• disappear gradually

• become feeble

• make more cheerful

• reduce the weight on; make lighter

• become more cheerful

• make more cheerful through the use of color

• become lighter

• alleviate or remove (pressure or stress) or make less oppressive

• a wooden strip forming part of a fence

• very light colored; highly diluted with white

• (of light) lacking in intensity or brightness; dim or feeble

• lacking in vitality or interest or effectiveness

• abnormally deficient in color as suggesting physical or emotional distress

• not full or rich

• turn pale, as if in fear

• English writer of novels about moral dilemmas in academe (1905-1980)

• precipitation falling from clouds in the form of ice crystals

• a layer of snowflakes (white crystals of frozen water) covering the ground

• street names for cocaine

• fall as snow

• conceal one's true motives from especially by elaborately feigning good intentions so as to gain an end

• being of the achromatic color of maximum lightness; having little or no hue owing to reflection of almost all incident light

• of or belonging to a racial group having light skin coloration

• the quality or state of the achromatic color of greatest lightness (bearing the least resemblance to black)

• a person of European descent with a light-skinned or pale complexion

• the white part of an egg; the nutritive and protective gelatinous substance surrounding the yolk consisting mainly of albumin dissolved in water

• United States jurist appointed chief justice of the United States Supreme Court in 1910 by President Taft; noted for his work on antitrust legislation (1845-1921)

• (board games) the lighter pieces

• Australian writer (1912-1990)

• (usually in the plural) trousers made of flannel or gabardine or tweed or white cloth

• United States political journalist (1915-1986)

• United States architect (1853-1906)

• United States writer noted for his humorous essays (1899-1985)

• United States educator who in 1865 (with Ezra Cornell) founded Cornell University and served as its first president (1832-1918)

• a tributary of the Mississippi River that flows southeastward through northern Arkansas and southern Missouri

• free from moral blemish or impurity; unsullied

• marked by the presence of snow

• restricted to whites only

• glowing white with heat

• benevolent; without malicious intent

• (of a surface) not written or printed on

• (of coffee) having cream or milk added

• (of hair) having lost its color

• anemic looking from illness or emotion

• of summer nights in northern latitudes where the sun barely sets

• turn white