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# whitewashed

«whitewashed» in Mova's school dictionary: **Painted with whitewash, a cheap white paint of lime and…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

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

### meaning for a pupil

1) Painted with whitewash, a cheap white paint of lime and water used on walls. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/whitewashed/#m1)

2) (figurative) Covered up: a whitewashed report hides mistakes or wrongdoing. [tree →](https://md.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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/whitewashed/#m3)

### sense 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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/whitewashed/#x1)
- The cottage had whitewashed walls and a red door. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/whitewashed/#x2)
- Tom Sawyer got his friends to whitewash the fence. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/whitewashed/#x3)
- The report was whitewashed to hide the mistakes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/whitewashed/#x4)
- England were whitewashed 5–0 in the series. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/whitewashed/#x5)
- The whitewashed houses shone in the sun. [tree →](https://md.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://md.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.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «whitewashed» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/whitewashed/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.