Meaning

(ergative) (To cause) to become white or whiter; to bleach or blanch..

Definitions by Sense

1. (ergative) (To cause) to become white or whiter; to bleach or blanch.
2. (cryptography) To increase the security of an iterated block cipher by steps that combine the data with portions of the key.
3. (statistics) To normalize data so that the covariance matrix becomes the identity matrix; i.e., to remove correlations so each variable has unit variance.

Example Sentences

Age had whitened his hair.

The trees in spring whiten with blossoms.

Whenever black people are furious with me, I walk over to them and whiten their face, and scream and scream and scream 'daddy’s the boss.'

Word Forms

• whitens
• whitening
• whitened

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When Should You Use Whiten?

Use whiten when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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