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What does whiten mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word whiten? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. (ergative) (To cause) to become white or whiter; to bleach or blanch.
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Just at the corners of his mouth his beard had begun to whiten a little, his lightish hair had turned darker.
If you have been using bleach to whiten clothes and they are now graying, switch to peroxide.
Coffee milk is used to whiten coffee in the same way as coffee cream, non-dairy coffee whiteners and to a certain extent milk.
The bleach will whiten fungi or algae but does not change the color of dirt.
We felt the wind pick up, saw waves whiten, but until the water went black and the bottle was empty we went on talking, nobody saying a word.
In the early 1990s, 46 of the 145 pulp mills in Canada used various chlorine bleaching processes to whiten paper.

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