1. Changing to a lighter colour
   - lightening

1. Turn white
   "This detergent will whiten your laundry"
   - white

Derived forms: whitenings

See also: whitener

Type of: change of color [US], change of colour [Brit, Cdn], color [US], colour [Brit, Cdn], discolor [US], discolour [Brit, Cdn]

Antonym: blacken

Encyclopedia: Whitening

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• piece of tail
• piece of work
• piece of writing
• piece-dye
• piecemeal
• piecewise
• piecework
• pieceworker
• pied
• pied lemming
• Pied Piper
• Pied Piper of Hamelin
• pied-billed grebe
• pied-à-terre
• piedmont
• Piedmont glacier
• Piedmont type of glacier
• Piemonte
• pieplant
• pier
• pier arch
• pier glass
• Pier Luigi Nervi
• pier mirror