whiten
to become white or whiter(To cause) to become white or whiter; to bleach or blanch.
» I got my teeth whitened.
Meaning
3 senses(ergative)(To cause) to become white or whiter; to bleach or blanch.
Age had whitened his hair.
The trees in spring whiten with blossoms.
weißen, weiß werden
бели́тьbelítʹ, побели́тьpobelítʹ, отбе́ливатьbleach
біли́тиbilýty
To increase the security of an iterated block cipher by steps that combine the data with portions of the key.
To normalize data so that the covariance matrix becomes the identity matrix; i.e., to remove correlations so each variable has unit variance.
- turn white
Examples
16 sentencesI got my teeth whitened.
Tom got his teeth whitened.
ruТом сделал отбеливание зубов.
deTom hat sich die Zähne bleichen lassen.
We carry out treatments like whitening. We also do tobacco stain removal and other cleaning procedures.
Did you get your teeth whitened?
ruТы отбелил зубы?
deHast du dir die Zähne bleichen lassen?
Tom and Mary got their teeth whitened.
Translations
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Origin
From Middle English whitenen, whitnen, from Old Norse hvítna (“to whiten”), from Proto-GerFrom Middle English whitenen, whitnen, from Old Norse hvítna (“to whiten”), from Proto-Germanic *hwītnōną (“to whiten, become white”), from Proto-Indo-European *kwind-, *kwint- (“bright”), equivalent to white + -en. Cognate with Icelandic hvítna (“to whiten”), Swedish vitna, hvitna (“to whiten”), Danish hvidne (“to whiten”). Compare Old English hwītian (“to whiten, become white, be white, make white”).
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Forms
whitens, whitening, whitened, whitenedSynonyms
1 synonyms- turn white:white
Antonyms
1 antonymsWord family
5 related wordsLessons for this word
3 lessons- A1Present simple — Because it is a verb
- A1Past simple, regular verbs — Because of its past form
- A2Present perfect: introduction — Because of its past participle