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# whitewashed

adjective (whitewashed); past form of whitewash (whitewash, whitewashes, whitewashed, whitewashing)

«whitewashed» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. Painted with whitewash, a cheap white paint of lime and water used on walls. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/whitewashed/#m1)
2. (figurative) Covered up: a whitewashed report hides mistakes or wrongdoing. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/whitewashed/#m2)
3. (sport, UK informal) to be whitewashed means to lose every game in a series. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/whitewashed/#m3)

### In the lessons

A house, history and news word. The very first scene of The Wind in the Willows: Mole is spring-cleaning, whitewashing his little home, until he throws down his brush and says «Hang spring-cleaning!» Country cottages and farm walls are often whitewashed. In news, «whitewash» means hiding the truth. In Tom Sawyer, Tom tricks his friends into whitewashing a fence.

### Examples

- Mole was whitewashing the walls of his home. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/whitewashed/#x1)
- The cottage had whitewashed walls and a red door. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/whitewashed/#x2)
- Tom Sawyer got his friends to whitewash the fence. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/whitewashed/#x3)
- The report was whitewashed to hide the mistakes. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/whitewashed/#x4)
- England were whitewashed 5–0 in the series. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/whitewashed/#x5)
- The whitewashed houses shone in the sun. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/whitewashed/#x6)
- In the forest by the river Gudenau, not far from the heath, and beneath the ridge of land, stood the little farm, newly painted and whitewashed. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/whitewashed/#x7)

### Note

Regular verb. In maths sport problems «whitewashed 5–0» means one side won every game. Figurative sense means covering up, which is dishonest.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «whitewashed» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/whitewashed/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«whitewashed» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/whitewashed.html) on Mova free.