Synonyms for whiten
All synonyms
Verb
white, bleach, pale, blanch, decolorize US, decolourise UK, decolourize UK, etiolate, bewhiten
Definitions
- v. 1
(To cause) to become white or whiter; to bleach or blanch.
Age had whitened his hair.
Forms
- Past participle
- whitened
e.g. whitened → whited, bleached, paled, blanched…
Choose the right word
To whiten is to make white in general, but commonly it means to overspread with white coloring-matter. Bleach and blanch both signify to whiten by depriving of color, the former permanently, as linen; the latter either permanently (as, to blanch celery) or temporarily (as, to blanch the cheek with fear).
J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)
Example sentences
- bleach Donald washed Jessica's black dresses with bleach.
By length
- 4 letters
- pale1
- 5 letters
- white1
- 6 letters
- bleach1, blanch1
- 8 letters
- etiolate, bewhiten
- 10 letters
- decolorize
- 11 letters
- decolourise, decolourize
In other languages
- Français
- blanchir
- Italiano
- imbiancare
- Español
- blanquear
- Deutsch
- weißen
- Català
- blanquejar