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What is the verb for white?

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whiten
  1. (ergative) (To cause) to become white or whiter; to bleach or blanch.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “If you have been using bleach to whiten clothes and they are now graying, switch to peroxide.”
      “In the early 1990s, 46 of the 145 pulp mills in Canada used various chlorine bleaching processes to whiten paper.”
      “The bleach will whiten fungi or algae but does not change the color of dirt.”
whitenize
  1. (transitive) To adapt to the cultural norms of white people.
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whitify
  1. (transitive) To convert (a country, a group, etc) to the white race or culture.
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white
whitening
whitenizes
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of whitenize
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whitifies
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of whitify
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whitens
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of whiten
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  3. Examples:
    1. “In a food processor or a medium mixing-bowl, blend the sugar with the eggs until the mixture whitens slightly.”
      “Dental Miracle is the single remedy I would take to a desert island, as it not only works to promote healthier gums, but also freshens breath and whitens teeth.”
      “It contains juniper berries, calendula, peppermint and orris root, and it effectively whitens teeth by helping to prevent plaque build-up and gum disease.”
whiteneth
  1. (archaic) Third-person singular simple present indicative form of whiten
whitenized
  1. simple past tense and past participle of whitenize
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whitenest
  1. (archaic) second-person singular simple present form of whiten
whitified
  1. simple past tense and past participle of whitify
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whitened
  1. simple past tense and past participle of whiten
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  3. Examples:
    1. “It had my audience on the edge of its seats, lips parted, knuckles whitened.”
      “Following the example of numerous celebrities, it is fast becoming the norm to have your teeth whitened professionally.”
      “Syrups, and many animal, vegetable, and saline solutions, are decoloured or whitened by agitation with animal charcoal.”
whited
  1. simple past tense and past participle of white
  2. Examples:
    1. “Our unusually tidy house is a sham, all deceiving beauty outside yet all corruption within, as a whited sepulchre, or market stall pear.”
      “Keep up the good fight, and as to the whited sepulchres, keep giving it to them good and hard.”
      “As I looked up to the evening sky, there were graceful clouds skitting luminescently across the horizon, reflecting the whited light of the moon.”
whitenizing
  1. present participle of whitenize
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whitifying
  1. present participle of whitify
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