whitewash

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white·wash1 /ˈwaɪtwɒʃ $ -wɒːʃ, -wɑːʃ/ noun  1  [singular, uncountable]HIDE/NOT SHOW a report or examination of events that hides the true facts about something so that the person who is responsible will not be punished 掩饰真相；粉饰 SYN cover-up The official report into the cause of the fire was labeled a whitewash. 官方的火灾原因报告被说成是对真相的隐瞒。2. [uncountable]DHH a white liquid mixture used especially for painting walls 〔尤指刷墙用的〕石灰水3. [countable]WIN an occasion in sport when one player or team defeats an opponent easily, without the opponent getting any points, goals etc 〔体育运动中的〕零封，完胜

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whitewash• A Greenpeace spokesperson described the official report on nuclear waste disposal as a whitewash.• If people don't like the message they can discuss it, but the report must not be seen as a whitewash.• This is not the time, with a whitewash to be avoided.• At least it will be no whitewash this season.• The Internal Investigations Division, a self-policing unit set up by Wilson, had become known as a pall of whitewash.• It is with Chaplin's personal life that Attenborough sloshes around the whitewash like a demented house-painter.• Doors and lintels were decorated with whitewash.

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whitewash2 verb [transitive]  1  DHHto cover something with whitewash 用石灰水粉刷〔某物〕 The walls were whitewashed and covered with bullfighting posters. 墙壁粉刷过后贴满了斗牛比赛的海报。2  HIDE/NOT SHOWto hide the true facts about a serious accident or illegal action 掩饰，粉饰〔严重意外或非法行为的真相〕 Investigators are accused of whitewashing the governor’s record. 调查者被指责粉饰州长的政绩。3. BEAT/DEFEATto defeat an opponent in sport easily, without the opponent getting any points, goals etc 〔在体育运动中〕零封，完胜→ See Verb table

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whitewash• Just past one bad curve, a small shrine has been erected, La Virgen surrounded by three concrete crosses recently whitewashed.• My first day on the works I was sent off to whitewash a shed all by myself.• Shop houses and ancestral halls were jumbled side by side with whitewashed cottages and churches.• Fields covered in snow would swallow up whitewashed farmhouses were it not for their black window frames.• The only hint of what goes on inside are the vultures that perch on its whitewashed outer walls.• Overlooking the walls were two whitewashed stone bastions.• Angry protesters whitewashed the offensive billboards.• Remember how they whitewashed the pigsties before they'd let their men sleep there?• A whitewashed verandah contained bags of wheat and well-oiled harnesses.

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white‧wash¹ /ˈwaɪtwɒʃ $ -wɒːʃ, -wɑːʃ/ noun
1. [singular, uncountable] a report or examination of events that hides the true facts about something so that the person who is responsible will not be punished
   SYN  cover-up:
    The official report into the cause of the fire was labeled a whitewash.
2. [uncountable] a white liquid mixture used especially for painting walls
3. [countable] an occasion in sport when one player or team defeats an opponent easily, without the opponent getting any points, goals etc

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whitewash² verb [transitive]
1. to cover something with whitewash:
    The walls were whitewashed and covered with bullfighting posters.
2. to hide the true facts about a serious accident or illegal action:
    Investigators are accused of whitewashing the governor’s record.
3. to defeat an opponent in sport easily, without the opponent getting any points, goals etc