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pinnoittaa valkoiseksi — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • whitewash noun A cheap white paint made from lime or chalk mixed with water, used to coat walls and fences.

Senses

pinnoittaa valkoiseksi is used for these senses in English:

  • whitewash (chiefly, literary, and, poetic, often, passive voice) To cover or coat (something) with a white substance, as if with whitewash (noun sense 1); also, to light up (something) with white light.

whitewash — full definition

  1. noun A cheap white paint made from lime or chalk mixed with water, used to coat walls and fences.
  2. noun An attempt to cover up mistakes or wrongdoing and make something look better than it is.
  3. verb To paint something with whitewash.
  4. verb To conceal unpleasant facts or wrongdoing in order to protect someone's reputation.
  5. noun A total, one-sided victory in which the losing side fails to score at all.

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