Past tense of whiten

Forms of whiten

Whitened in a sentence

• Age had whitened his hair.
• The double chin had been blown away completely, revealing a skeletal jaw and chemically whitened teeth.2011, Scott Kenemore, Zombie, Ohio: A Tale of the Undead, →ISBN, page 228. From the entry mincemeat
• Rounding up the animals in the misty paddocks, with the blackbirds singing as the morning whitened, he felt hilarious, light-headed.1944, Douglas Stewart, A Girl with Red Hair, and Other Stories, page 60. From the entry hilarious
• Other users of non-anglo descent have also alleged Lensa whitened their skin and anglicised their features, a common complaint of image-editing software on platforms like TikTok.2022 December 8, Caitlin Cassidy, “What does the Lensa AI app do with my self portraits and why has it gone viral?”, in The Guardian. From the entry anglicise
• And hes splashed all over the front pages of the tabloids this morning, arm in arm with some smiling disco bunny with a silicone chest and whitened teeth.2001, Laura Lockington, chapter 6, in Capers in the Sauce, Century, page 110. From the entry disco bunny

Meaning of whiten

1. verb (To cause) to become white or whiter; to bleach or blanch.
2. verb To increase the security of an iterated block cipher by steps that combine the data with portions of the key.
3. verb To normalize data so that the covariance matrix becomes the identity matrix; i.e., to remove correlations so each variable has unit variance.

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Questions about the past tense of whiten

What is the past tense of whiten?

The past tense of whiten is whitened.

What is the past participle of whiten?

The past participle of whiten is whitened.

Is whiten a regular or irregular verb?

Whiten is a regular verb: its past tense adds -ed.