whitened (verb)

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• whiten — verb (whitened; whitening) Date: 14th century transitive verb to make white or whiter < snow whitened the hills > intransitive verb to become white or whiter …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• whiten — verb the sun has whitened the pink towels Syn: make white, make pale, bleach, blanch, lighten, fade …   Thesaurus of popular words

• Baseball field — The baseball diamond of the San Diego Padres PETCO Park, seen from the stands. A baseball field, also called a ball field or a baseball diamond, is the field upon which the game of baseball is played. The terms baseball field and ball field are… …   Wikipedia

• whiten — UK [ˈwaɪt(ə)n] / US / US [ˈhwaɪt(ə)n] verb [intransitive/transitive] Word forms whiten : present tense I/you/we/they whiten he/she/it whitens present participle whitening past tense whitened past participle whitened to become pale or white, or to …   English dictionary

• Lithuanian language — Lithuanian lietuvių kalba Spoken in Lithuania Region Europe Native speakers 3.2 million  (1998) Language family …   Wikipedia

• etiolate — [c]/ˈitioʊleɪt/ (say eeteeohlayt) verb (etiolated, etiolating) –verb (t) 1. to cause (a plant) to whiten by excluding light. –verb (i) 2. to become blanched or whitened, as when grown without sunlight. {French étioler blanch + ate1} –etiolation… …  

• whit´en|er — whit|en «HWY tuhn», transitive verb. to make white or whiter: »Sunshine helps to whiten clothes. –v.i. to become white or whiter: »She whitened when she heard the bad news. –whit´en|er, noun. Synonym Study transitive verb, intransitive verb.… …   Useful english dictionary

• whit|en — «HWY tuhn», transitive verb. to make white or whiter: »Sunshine helps to whiten clothes. –v.i. to become white or whiter: »She whitened when she heard the bad news. –whit´en|er, noun. Synonym Study transitive verb, intransitive verb. Whiten,… …   Useful english dictionary

• WRITING — (Scripts, Materials, and Inscriptions). SCRIPTS AND MATERIALS General Survey From the end of the third millennium B.C.E., the art of writing was practiced in the ancient Near East (see alphabet ). Here, the pictographic, cuneiform, and… …   Encyclopedia of Judaism