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1. A defeat in which the losing person or team fails to score
    
2. Wash consisting of lime and size in water; used for whitening walls and other surfaces
    
3. A specious or deceptive clearing that attempts to gloss over failings and defects

1. Cover up a misdemeanour, fault, or error
   "Let's not whitewash the crimes of Stalin";
   - gloss over, sleek over, hush up
    
2. Cover with whitewash
   "whitewash walls"
    
3. Exonerate by means of a perfunctory investigation or through biased presentation of data

Derived forms: whitewashes, whitewashed, whitewashing

Type of: acquit, assoil [archaic], clear, clearing, cover, cover up, defeat, discharge, exculpate, exonerate, licking, paper over, wash

Encyclopedia: Whitewash