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n.
- a defeat in which the losing person or team fails to score
- wash consisting of lime and size in water; used for whitening walls and other surfaces
- a specious or deceptive clearing that attempts to gloss over failings and defects
v.
- cover up a misdemeanor, fault, or error
  "Let's not whitewash the crimes of Stalin"
  
  同义词： gloss over sleek over hush up
- cover with whitewash
  "whitewash walls"
- exonerate by means of a perfunctory investigation or through biased presentation of data

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1.
N-UNCOUNT Whitewash is a mixture of lime or chalk and water that is used for painting walls white. (将墙壁刷成白色的) 石灰水
2.
V-T If a wall or building has been whitewashed, it has been painted white with whitewash. (用石灰水) 刷白

例：

The walls had been whitewashed.

墙壁被粉刷成白色。
3.
V-T If you say that people whitewash something, you are accusing them of hiding the unpleasant facts or truth about it in order to make it acceptable. 粉饰 [表不满]

例：

The administration is whitewashing the regime's actions.

政府正在粉饰该政权的行为。

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This is better than whitewashing!

这比刷墙强多了！

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Tom went on whitewashing the fence--paid no attention to the steamboat.

汤姆继续刷着栅栏，没注意那只汽船。

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But Sankar, like many other young, female entrepreneurs, has had enough of the whitewashing.

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Perhaps his thought was that if the international organization actually certified a violation (instead of whitewashing it), such a verdict would lead to proper punishment.

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As a writer, I know well that the only way to successfully put these columns together is by reflecting my feelings and Joe's without any whitewashing.

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