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| Main Entry: |
gloss
[glos, glaws]
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| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | conceal truth |
| Synonyms: | belie, camouflage, cover up, deacon, disguise, doctor, explain, extenuate, falsify, hide, justify, mask, misrepresent, palliate, rationalize, smooth over, soft-pedal, sugarcoat, varnish, veil, veneer, white, whiten, whitewash |
| Antonyms: | clear up, explain, reveal |
| Main Entry: | whiten |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make or become extremely pale |
| Synonyms: | blanch, bleach, blench, chalk, decolor, decolorize, dull, etiolate, fade, frost, grizzle, lighten, pale, silver, turn pale, white, whitewash |
| Antonyms: | blacken, darken, dirty |
| Main Entry: | whitewash |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | cover up the truth |
| Synonyms: | blanch, camouflage, conceal, exonerate, extenuate, gloss over, launder, liberate, make light of, paint, palliate, sugarcoat, suppress, varnish, veneer, vindicate, white, whiten |
| Antonyms: | expose, reveal, tell truth |
| Main Entry: | dress uniform |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | formal uniform |
| Synonyms: | court dress, dress blues, dress whites, full-dress uniform, regalia, social full-dress uniform, special full-dress uniform, whites |
| Main Entry: | whiteness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | paleness |
| Synonyms: | hoariness, pallidity, white |
| Antonyms: | blackness, darkness |
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| Concept: | Whiteness. |
| Category: | 2. Sensation; special sensation; light; specific light |
| Synonyms: |
-nouns
whiteness; argent. albification, etiolation; lactescence., snow, paper, chalk, milk, lily, ivory, alabaster; albata, eburin, German silver, white metal, barium sulphate, titanium oxide, blanc fixe, ceruse, pearl white; white lead, carbonate of lead.
-verbs
be white., render white; whiten, bleach, blanch, etiolate, whitewash, silver.
-adjectives
white; milk-white, snow-white; snowy; niveous, candid, chalky; hoar, hoary; silvery; argent, argentine; canescent, cretaceous, lactescent., whitish, creamy, pearly, fair, blond; blanched; high in tone, light., white as a sheet, white as driven snow, white as a lily, white as silver; like ivory.
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| Antonyms: | blackness |
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