Term: whitewash
IPA: ˈwaɪtwɒʃ, ˈʍaɪtˌwɑʃ, ˈʍɐɪtˌwɑʃ

==English==
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===Etymology===
[[File:Whitewash (3915197412).jpg|thumb|A young man in [[Bukhara]], [[Uzbekistan]], painting with whitewash ''({{senseno|en|mixture}})''.]]

The {{lg|noun}} is derived from {{compound|en|white|pos1=a|wash|pos2=n|notext=1|type=endocentric}}.<ref>{{R:OED Online|pos=n|id=9332196025|date=December 2024|nodot=1}}; {{R:Lexico|pos=n|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220813032035/https://www.lexico.com/definition/whitewash}}</ref> {{senseno|en|drug