If a wall or building has been whitewashed, it has been painted white with whitewash. The walls had been whitewashed. a town of picturesque whitewashed cottages
disapproval Whitewash is an attempt to hide the unpleasant facts or truth about someone or something. He pledged that there would be no whitewash and that the police would carry out a full investigation
a specious or deceptive clearing that attempts to gloss over failings and defects wash consisting of lime and size in water; used for whitening walls and other surfaces a defeat in which the losing person or team fails to score exonerate by means of a perfunctory investigation or through biased presentation of data cover with whitewash; "whitewash walls"
This is the turbulent water created by the wake in the center of the two wakes Whitewash can also show up on the wake itself, which would make the wake a little harder to hit because it would be less clean
disapproval 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. The administration is whitewashing the regime's actions = cover up