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as in white
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as in bleached
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as in faded
to make white or whiter by removing color
years of sunlight had almost completely whitened the flag
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Recent Examples of whitened
Mary Marlowe Leverette,
The Spruce,
4 Mar. 2026
ABC News,
27 Mar. 2026
My knuckles whitened against the steering wheel.
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MSNBC Newsweek,
24 Sep. 2025
Adjective
Rub a small amount of oil, like mayonnaise or vegetable oil, on the whitened area; natural oils should suffice.
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Mary Marlowe Leverette,
The Spruce,
4 Mar. 2026
Verb
Pairs that make the cut are cleaned from the sole upward, disinfected inside and, in some cases, whitened under UV light before being put back into circulation.
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ABC News,
27 Mar. 2026
My knuckles whitened against the steering wheel.
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MSNBC Newsweek,
24 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for whitened
Adjective
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One of the details described the placement of Guthrie's Apple Watch with a white wrist band that was left on the floor next to her bed.
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Paltrow wore a black, strapless gown and buckled slippers, while Martin sported a two-tone brown-and-blue sweater over a white T-shirt, with brown corduroy pants and a stylishly thin belt.
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The palettes are often chalky and austere—bleached grays, oxidized browns—and the subject matter can blur into undifferentiated bulk.
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Nippon Dynawave employs hundreds to produce bleached paperboard that is used to make cartons and containers for products like juice and milk.
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As impact heating faded, the upper mantle cooled, and the once-thin basaltic crust thickened.
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On Saturday night, the visibility faded to a point where the old-school scoreboard above the center-field bleachers could not be seen from the press box high atop the Friendly Confines.
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Instead, the moss’s telltale sign of woe is its glum, grayish hue, a waxen appearance that comes from ferns and algae that have crept over it.
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The duvet set includes two pillowcases and a duvet cover made from 100 percent cotton that’s pre-washed to ensure softness from night one and designed to mimic the appearance of crisp linen.
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Pre-washed rice has already been rinsed, so washing it again is unnecessary.
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The colors are really sallow and kind of ugly.
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The cold of winter can leave your complexion dry, sallow, and desperate for hydration.
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Workers feed iron ore, coal and limestone into the furnaces’ top and use long sticks to punch open holes for purified molten iron to flow out from the bottom.
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This was a mouse study using a purified research-grade form of phytic acid, not the kind on your dinner plate.
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Engineers even worried that slow-moving crude would congeal inside the pipeline, creating waxy buildup that could turn TAPS into the world’s biggest tube of ChapStick.
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High-starch potatoes will take a little longer to soften fully, while waxier or smaller varieties may cook faster.
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“Whitened.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/whitened. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.
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