побели́ть — meaning in English

English meaning

• blanch verb To grow or become white.
• whiten verb (To cause) to become white or whiter; to bleach or blanch.
• whitewash noun A cheap white paint made from lime or chalk mixed with water, used to coat walls and fences.

Senses

побели́ть is used for these senses in English:

• blanch (transitive, figuratively) To give a favorable appearance to; to whitewash; to whiten;
• whiten (ergative) (To cause) to become white or whiter; to bleach or blanch.

blanch — full definition

1. verb To grow or become white.
2. verb To take the color out of, and make white; to bleach.
3. verb To cook by dipping briefly into boiling water, then directly into cold water.
4. verb To whiten, for example the surface of meat, by plunging into boiling water and afterwards into cold, so as to harden the surface and retain the juices.

whiten — full definition

1. verb (To cause) to become white or whiter; to bleach or blanch.
2. verb To increase the security of an iterated block cipher by steps that combine the data with portions of the key.
3. verb To normalize data so that the covariance matrix becomes the identity matrix; i.e., to remove correlations so each variable has unit variance.

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