Whitewash Synonyms and Antonyms

wītwŏsh, -wôsh, hwīt-
To cover with a lime wash
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. paint
  2. whiten
  3. calcimine
  4. paint white
  5. gloss over
  6. apply a white coating
  7. wash
  8. sleek over
  9. hush up
Antonyms:
  1. tell truth
  2. expose
  3. reveal
*To give the appearance of innocence
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. varnish
  2. veneer
  3. sugarcoat
  4. color
  5. gloss over
  6. gild
  7. cover-up
  8. camouflage
  9. gloss
  10. conceal
  11. gloze
  12. coverup
  13. conceal the facts of
  14. defeat
  15. play down
  16. lime
  17. rationalize
  18. minimize
  19. paint
  20. palliate
Antonyms:
  1. implicate
  2. accuse
  3. blame
To conceal or make light of a fault or offense
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. explain away
  2. extenuate
  3. gloss over
  4. gloze
  5. palliate
  6. sleek over

Words Related to Whitewash

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. excuse
  2. true
  3. show
  4. white-washed
  5. red-tiled
  6. colour-washed
  7. red brick
  8. roughcast

Whitewash Sentence Examples

  • Agostino, discovered in 1902 under a coating of whitewash.

  • Evens for a series whitewash is starting to look generous.

  • Within the curtain stand the monastic buildings, a large garden and a cruciform chapel, with many curious old stone carvings, half hidden beneath whitewash.

  • The open work was filled up with whitewash, the painting and gilding effaced, the furniture soiled, torn or removed.

  • It smelled rather musty and, in places, the whitewash was peeling off the plastered walls.

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