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to make white or whiter by removing color years of sunlight had almost completely whitened the flag Synonyms blanch, bleach, blench, decolorize, dull, fade, pale, snow, wash out Related Words brighten, lighten; dim, mat (also matte or matt); etiolate; whitewash; frost, silver Near Antonyms blacken; blotch, checker, dapple, daub, discolor, fleck, marble, mottle, pattern, polychrome, shade, speck, speckle, splotch, spot, streak, striate, stripe, tarnish, variegate; color, dye, paint, pigment, stain, tincture, tinge, tint; burnish, polish, shine Antonyms darken, deepen, embrown
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