whitewash
/ˈwʌɪtwɒʃ/
US pronunciation
American sound/ˈwʌɪtwɒʃ/
whitewash
- Syllables
- 2 syllables
- Stress
- 1st syllable stress
- Vowel
- Short i vowel
- Ending
- Clear final sound
whi - te - wash -> whitewash
Myanmar meaning
နံရံများ ဖြူဖွေးစေရန် သုံးသည့် မဖောက်ထုံးအရည်။ အပြစ် ၊ အမှားအယွင်းများကို ဖုံးကွယ်ရန် အသုံးပြုသည့် နည်းလမ်းများ။ ထုံးရည် ၊ ဆေးဖြူဖြင့် ဖုံးအုပ်သည်။ ဖြစ်ရပ်မှန်များကို ဖုံးကွယ်ခြင်းဖြင့် သိက္ခာဆယ်ရန် ကြိုးပမ်းသည်။
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၁။ [U] ထုံးဖြူမှုန့်။
၂။ [U, C] ဖုံးဖိ ဖာထေးခြင်း။ The Opposition dismissed the report as a whitewash. အတိုက်အခံက အစီရင်ခံစာကို 'ဆင်သေကို ဆိတ်သားရေနှင့် ဖုံးခြင်း' ဟူ၍ ပယ်ချလိုက်သည်။
၃။ [C] (sport infml ) အပြတ်အသတ်နိုင်ခြင်း။ ပွဲကျွတ်အောင် နိုင်ခြင်း။ They completed the whitewash with a 9-0 win in the last game.
v
၁။ ထုံးသုတ်သည်။ pretty, whitewashed villages.
၂။ ဖုံးဖိဖာထေးသည်။
More examples
- ‘Chunks of whitewash were missing exposing the grey material underneath.’
- ‘The saddlebags had been brought from the stables and rested on a wooden bench near the washstand, already patterned with chips of whitewash flaking from the walls.’
- ‘Lime whitewashes are very alkaline and cause insecticides to become ineffective in controlling insects.’
- ‘They were of an older stile, bricks and mortar peeping out from behind chipped whitewash.’
- ‘A health education program is needed that explains the dangers of asbestos exposure and warns about the use of asbestos-containing soils for whitewash.’
- ‘Most Andalusian villages are white since whitewash covers the walls of the houses but only one itinerary in the region is called the Route of the White Villages.’
- ‘These wall paintings were executed sometime during the later sixteenth century and covered with whitewash (rather than sanded off) in the seventeenth century as tastes changed.’
- ‘Never mix insecticides in ordinary lime whitewash.’
- ‘The whitewash walls were in good repair but the roof was mossy and many of the tiles were cracked or askew.’
- ‘Wall paintings in particular, once so abundant, have succumbed to decay, destruction, or covering over with whitewash.’
- ‘Men dig the raw material in the mountains and transport it to their homes where women apply it to the house walls as whitewash.’
- ‘The two main churches, the Nieuwe Kerk and the Oude Kerk, are serene oases of wood, brick and whitewash.’
- ‘All his polychromes were thought to have been lost or defaced, until some of them were accidentally found just two years ago, hidden under whitewash and plaster, by a German film team making a documentary on the writer.’
- ‘But Monty didn't stop his whitewash at the front door.’
- ‘But no amount of whitewash and tarmac can hide Georgian society's deeper malaise.’
- ‘Casts of sports trophies, a toy train, a saw, a football and a cross are some of the items embedded in the work, all of them rendered fossil-like by the lime whitewash.’
- ‘The morning the debate on Hutton was held, demonstrators dressed as judges threw whitewash at the gates of Blair's Number 10 Downing Street residence.’
- ‘In my own garden I have an old stone wall with remnants of whitewash that reflects the sunlight and heat in summer.’
- ‘Light spattered down the steps like whitewash off a sloppy painter's brush, but the splashes caught no one.’
- ‘Many of the buildings are faced with light-hued stone or stucco daubed with whitewash, the doors and window frames of some painted blue-the color for good luck.’
Synonyms
loss, reverse, setback, beating, rout, trouncing, thrashing, hiding, beat, blanch, camouflage, conceal, concealment, conspiracy, cover, cover up, cover-up, cream, crush, daub, deception, decorate, defeat, distemper, exonerate, explain away, extenuate, gloss over, launder, liberate, lime, make light of, misrepresent, misrepresentation, one-horse race, outclass, paint, palliate, plot, see off, shut out, shutout, smear, sugarcoat, suppress, sweep under the carpet, trounce, varnish, veneer, vindicate, white, whiten, whitening, wipeout
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