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to whiten
01
to become white or lighter in color
Intransitive
Grammatical Information
Composition
derived
Action verb
Regular
Present tense
whiten
3rd person singular
whitens
Present participle
whitening
Past simple
whitened
Past participle
whitened
Examples
The shirt tends to whiten after several washes.
Examples
She uses bleach to whiten her white clothes.
Lexical Tree
whitened
whitener
whitening
whiten
