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Discover LudwigThe word "whitened' is correct and usable in written English
You can use it to describe something becoming or being made white, or to describe a person or thing that has become or been made white. Example sentence: The walls of the room were whitened with a fresh coat of paint.
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whitened
verb
Past of whiten
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The local chippy in Bala obliged and as I looked at the menu, I knew exactly what I'd be ordering: "weaver fish, please!" Joanna House You may not want your teeth whitened for a tenner.
It whitened the skins of young women, outlined their eyes and turned their lips gloss-red.
Just over a decade ago the North Carolina Board of Dental Examiners (NCBDE) noticed that many people were getting their teeth whitened at spas or kiosks in shopping malls.
During the Renaissance, popular characters in French farce wore false beards of lamb's wool and whitened their faces with flour.
Unlike most of the other stock characters, he played without a mask, his face whitened with powder.
Then the skin is stretched tight on a frame, scraped thin to remove further traces of hair and flesh, whitened with chalk, and smoothed with pumice.
Previous major roles have seen him painted blue and covered in blue fur in X-Men and with his head shaved and skin whitened as the terminally ill nutbag slave on a mission, Nux in Mad Max: Fury Road.
His hair had whitened sooner than my grandmother's; he had a clipped military mustache, a metal-stemmed pipe, and a tobacco pouch that distended his cardigan pocket.
There were more than a dozen men patrolling the field who looked like coaches, and not a few of them with the weathered skin and receded or whitened hair to suggest acquired authority.
His starched shirt had a four-inch-high collar that fit snugly under his chin, and his hair — whitened with a gesso-like dry shampoo — was pulled into a ponytail.
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I remember Mac in the flattering, laundry-whitened khaki "suntans" of the time, with a crumpled pilot's cap and those silver leaves on his lapels.
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