WHITENED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does whitened mean? 

• WHITENED (adjective)
  The adjective WHITENED has 1 sense:

1. (of hair) having lost its color

  Familiarity information: WHITENED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WHITENED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(of hair) having lost its color

Synonyms:

white; whitened

Context example:

the white hairs of old age

Similar:

colorless; colourless (weak in color; not colorful)

 Context examples 

Underneath there was an old boat-cloak, whitened with sea-salt on many a harbour-bar.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

It was a very long street of two-story brick houses, neat and prim, with whitened stone steps and little groups of aproned women gossiping at the doors.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I never shall forget seeing her fall backward on the hard road, and lie there with her bonnet tumbled off, and her hair all whitened in the dust; nor, when I looked back from a distance, seeing her sitting on the pathway, which was a bank by the roadside, wiping the blood from her face with a corner of her shawl, while he went on ahead.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

On the eve of the contest the peasants flocked in from the whole district of the Medoc, and the fields beyond the walls were whitened with the tents of those who could find no warmer lodging.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The frozen particles of ice, brushed from the blades of grass by the wind, and borne across my face; the hard clatter of the horse's hoofs, beating a tune upon the ground; the stiff-tilled soil; the snowdrift, lightly eddying in the chalk-pit as the breeze ruffled it; the smoking team with the waggon of old hay, stopping to breathe on the hill-top, and shaking their bells musically; the whitened slopes and sweeps of Down-land lying against the dark sky, as if they were drawn on a huge slate!

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)