whitewash

Other forms of whitewash

plural

whitewashes·

past tense

whitewashed·

present participle

whitewashing·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about whitewash

What does whitewash mean?

whitewash means "a defeat in which the losing person or team fails to score". That is the primary sense; the word has 6 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in whitewash?

whitewash has 2 syllables: white-wash. The stress falls on "white". In IPA it is /ˈwaɪˌtwɑʃ/.

What is another word for whitewash?

Close synonyms include gloss over, sleek over, hush up. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is whitewash a common word?

whitewash is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.