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Meanings of whiten in English

Portuguese
corar
Catalan
emblanquir

Turn white.

corar
Usage of whiten in English
1
Results: All bleaching products have the same efficacy to whiten stained enamel.
Pubmed
2
The snows do not whiten it; it hath been there many winters.
The Wept of Wish-Ton-Wish
3
I saw your knuckles strain and whiten the moment before you thrust.
The Sorceress
4
A little starch thrown into the bath will sometimes whiten the skin.
The Woman Beautiful; or, The Art of Beauty Culture
5
Put them in boiling water for about five minutes to whiten them.
Simple Italian Cookery
6
They black their hair and whiten their faces, and powder and paint.
Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States...
7
She continues, her hands gripping the wheel so tight her knuckles whiten.
Geektastic
8
It's easier to blacken the best man than to whiten the worst.
The Voice of the People
9
He saw her slowly whiten, till scarce a vestige of colour remained.
The White Ladies of Worcester: A Romance of the Twelfth Century
10
I'm afraid you will whiten the soles of your boots, I mean.
Essays in Rebellion
11
And some of the borax and egg-white paste, to whiten my skin.
The lady elizabeth
12
Minerals Technologies produces calcium carbonate, used to whiten everything from paper to talc.
Reuters
13
Where the belles of Tahiti lived in the shade to whiten their complexions
White Shadows in the South Seas
14
Indeed, the sails of his ships whiten the river for miles.
The Story of Siegfried
15
The snow was to whiten the pitch, not the pitch blacken the snow.
It Is Never Too Late to Mend
16
He saw the panes of the side door gray and whiten.
The Fur Bringers: A Story of the Canadian Northwest
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