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healthwash

healthwash verb: to obfuscate the low nutritional value of a food by using misleading labeling.

Verb

healthwash (third-person singular simple present healthwashes, present participle healthwashing, simple past and past participle healthwashed)

  1. (intransitive, transitive) To obfuscate the low nutritional value of a food by using misleading labeling.

Forms of healthwash

third-person singular presenthealthwashes
present participlehealthwashing
past participlehealthwashed
pasthealthwashed

Origin of healthwash

From health + -wash.

Questions about healthwash

What does healthwash mean?
Healthwash means to obfuscate the low nutritional value of a food by using misleading labeling.
What part of speech is healthwash?
Healthwash is a verb.
What is the past tense of healthwash?
The past tense of healthwash is healthwashed.

Words near healthwash in the dictionary

  1. healthsome
  2. healthsomeness
  3. healthspan
  4. healthspans
  5. healthward
  6. healthwash
  7. healthwashed
  8. healthwashes
  9. healthwashing
  10. healthwise
  11. healthworker

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