whitewash meaning in Urdu
پتائی
/ˈwaɪtwɒʃ/US/ˈʍaɪtˌwɑʃ/
whitewash in Urdu: پتائی, قلعی, سفیدی, غلطی پر پردہ ڈالنا. In English, whitewash means a mixture of a powdered mineral substance (often slaked lime (containing calcium hydroxide), chalk (calcium carbonate), or both) and water which is used for painting surfaces such as fences and walls bright white.
Urdu words for whitewash
- پتائی, قلعی, سفیدی, غلطی پر پردہ ڈالنا, پوتنا, پتائی کرنا
English meaning of whitewash
- noun A mixture of a powdered mineral substance (often slaked lime (containing calcium hydroxide), chalk (calcium carbonate), or both) and water which is used for painting surfaces such as fences and walls bright white.
- noun A thing used to hide mistakes, or to create an appearance of honesty, propriety, etc.; also (often politics), an act of hiding mistakes or creating an appearance of honesty, propriety, etc.; especially, a campaign, investigation, etc., which intentionally hides or overlooks unfavourable facts.
- noun An act of clearing a person's debts, especially through a declaration of bankruptcy by a court.
- noun A complete victory or series of victories without suffering any losses; a clean sweep; also, a victory or series of victories by a very large margin.
whitewash in a sentence
- Near-synonym: limewash (often coinstantial)
- The houses looked very bright after they had whitewashed the whole neighbourhood.
- In his sermon, the minister didn’t try to whitewash over the sins of his church.
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Questions about whitewash in Urdu
- What is the meaning of whitewash in Urdu?
- Whitewash in Urdu is پتائی, قلعی, سفیدی, غلطی پر پردہ ڈالنا.
- whitewash کا اردو میں کیا مطلب ہے؟
- Whitewash: پتائی, قلعی, سفیدی, غلطی پر پردہ ڈالنا.
- What does whitewash mean in English?
- Whitewash means a mixture of a powdered mineral substance (often slaked lime (containing calcium hydroxide), chalk (calcium carbonate), or both) and water which is used for painting surfaces such as fences and walls bright white.
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Urdu words from Urdu Wiktionary: whitewash (page history and authors). English meanings adapted from Wiktionary: whitewash (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the Urdu words and English meanings and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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