to become white or whiter; to make sth white or whiter:
[V] He gripped the wheel until his knuckles whitened. * Her face whitened when she heard the news. * [VN] Snow had whitened the tops of the trees.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for whiten is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is whiten a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, whiten is tagged as verb.
Does whiten appear elsewhere on Lughet?
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