英语词汇“to whiten up”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

1. transitive. To make (a person) appear more respectable, honest, etc., than they are; to conceal the faults or errors of; = sense 1b. Now rare.

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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > dissimulation, pretence > semblance, outward show > present speciously [verb (transitive)]

showc1175

feignc1340

clothe1393

colourc1400

gloze1430

pretence1548

whiten1583

maska1593

vizard1628

tissuea1639

to whiten up1746

act1790

veneer1875

histrionize1876

window dress1913

1746 Westm. Jrnl. 24 May A Piece of Information that has several Times been wanted, in order to whiten up D——ch Honour and Bravery.

1859 Bristol Mercury 9 July 6/3 His learned friend..had opened the case in his usual way, by whitening up his own client and blackening the defendant.

1905 Critic (N.Y.) Apr. 367/2 Don't think of whitening up those fellows... Paint them as black as you know how.

1919 L. M. Sweet Makin' o' Joe ix. 119 It was a good many hours too late by the Town clock on the New Methodist Church to whiten up her reputation.

2. transitive. To make white or paler in colour, as by coating with whitewash, paint, etc., by cleaning or bleaching, or by the addition of a white-coloured additive; = sense 2.

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the world > matter > colour > named colours > white or whiteness > whitening > make white [verb (transitive)] > bleach

bleachc1200

blanch?a1400

white?a1425

whiten1548

whitewash1576

to whiten up1808

overbleach1857

1808 E. Hamilton Cottagers of Glenburnie vi. 104 The..cottages..being so whitened up, that no one can have the comfort of laying a dirty hand upon them without leaving the impression.

1853 N.Y. Times 16 May 1/3 The milkmen..rarely ever put in enough water to render it [sc. milk] blue, and necessitate the employment of chalk or magnesia to whiten it up again.

1905 W. D. Howells London Films ix. 83 A housemaid..scrubbing down and whitening up the front steps of a stately mansion.

1932 San Antonio (Texas) Express 23 Mar. 9/4 (advt.) Now stop useless brushing and whiten up your teeth right away!

2006 P. Morsi Cotton Queen 294 Do not, under any circumstances, bring me coffee that's been whitened up with powdered creamer.

3. Originally and chiefly U.S.

a. transitive. To apply white colour to (the body, esp. the face), typically in order to play the part of a white person. Cf. to blacken up 1 at blacken v. Phrasal verbs.

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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > the theatre or the stage > the staging of a theatrical production > stage [verb (transitive)] > make up

to make up1778

to whiten up1842

to blacken up1861

to black up1877

to white up1906

1842 Weekly Herald (N.Y.) 7 May 260/3 A half dozen negroes took it into their woolly pates to ape the whites.., so whitened up their phizes with chalk and paint.

1890 C. Cole Auroraphone iii. 67 Mel and I hurriedly whitened up our faces..set our features into corpse-like rigidity, and..awaited developments.

1955 Jet 1 Sept. 46 The heavy coat of make-up..made her appear as though she had been ‘whitened up’ by over-zealous make-up artists.

2009 Evening Standard (Nexis) 9 Apr. 14 Death and the King's Horseman..is an exploration of colonialism using the storytelling conventions of Nigeria, where they whiten up black faces to represent imperial masters.

b. intransitive. To apply white colour to one's body, esp. the face, typically in order to play the part of a white person. Cf. to blacken up 2 at blacken v. Phrasal verbs.

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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > the theatre or the stage > the staging of a theatrical production > stage [verb (intransitive)] > make up

black1579

blacken1699

to make up1839

to whiten up1878

to blacken up1884

to black up1890

to white up1890

1878 St. Louis Globe-Democrat 6 Nov. 7/4 Sometimes she would have to whiten up.., and other times she'd black up completely to play Topsy.

1886 Sullivan (Indiana) Democrat 3 Aug. White persons have blacked up to imitate negroes from time immemorial. For a negro to ‘whiten up’ to personate a white person is something new.

1908 Sunday Post (Boston) 27 Sept. 25/1 The twin stars will impersonate the characters usually assumed by white artists... Instead of ‘blacking up’ they will ‘whiten up’.

2006 C. R. Daileader in A. Thompson Colorblind Shakespeare iii. xi. 218 What if an actress of color—like Whoopi Goldberg in her appearance at the Oscars—were to ‘whiten up’ for the Liz Taylor look?

4. Chiefly U.S.

a. transitive. To make (more) white in ethnic or cultural identity, character, or style; = sense 4.

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1868 [implied in: Daily National Intelligencer (Washington) 29 Jan. Any opposition to slavery..looked to the ultimate whitening up of all the Southern States.].

1902 St. Nicholas Dec. 124/2 ‘Louizy..'s a ole black-skin name...’ ‘But don't you think maybe we mought sort o' whiten up Louizy into Loueezy.., or maybe into Louise?’

1961 Times 27 Nov. 11/3 A century of progress would whiten up the yellow races and inter-marriage would do the rest.

1987 J. M. Curtis Rock Eras ii. ix. 104 If Motown whitened up fifties rhythm and blues, the Beach Boys whitened up rock 'n' roll in general.

2004 C. N. Davidson Revol. & World (rev. ed.) 23 History has ‘whitened up’ the patriots who died during the Boston Massacre. It makes them New Englanders.., not multicultural, multinational dock workers.

b. intransitive. To become (more) white in ethnic or cultural identity, character, or style.

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1968 W. D. Jordan White over Black v. 517 The only hope for Americans who balked at Negro slavery..lay in the proposition that Negroes in America were going to whiten up.

1981 Washington Post 26 July g7/2 Just as [Kenny] Rogers has tried to tighten up, [Lionel] Richie seems to have whitened up.

2009 C. Corbould Becoming Afr. Amer. 16 American nativism..led to an insistence that such [sc. African American] immigrants whiten up, become ‘100 percent American’.

单词	to whiten up
释义	> as lemmas to whiten up to whiten up 1. transitive. To make (a person) appear more respectable, honest, etc., than they are; to conceal the faults or errors of; = sense 1b. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > dissimulation, pretence > semblance, outward show > present speciously [verb (transitive)] showc1175 feignc1340 clothe1393 colourc1400 gloze1430 pretence1548 whiten1583 maska1593 vizard1628 tissuea1639 to whiten up1746 act1790 veneer1875 histrionize1876 window dress1913 1746 Westm. Jrnl. 24 May A Piece of Information that has several Times been wanted, in order to whiten up D——ch Honour and Bravery. 1859 Bristol Mercury 9 July 6/3 His learned friend..had opened the case in his usual way, by whitening up his own client and blackening the defendant. 1905 Critic (N.Y.) Apr. 367/2 Don't think of whitening up those fellows... Paint them as black as you know how. 1919 L. M. Sweet Makin' o' Joe ix. 119 It was a good many hours too late by the Town clock on the New Methodist Church to whiten up her reputation. 2. transitive. To make white or paler in colour, as by coating with whitewash, paint, etc., by cleaning or bleaching, or by the addition of a white-coloured additive; = sense 2. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > named colours > white or whiteness > whitening > make white [verb (transitive)] > bleach bleachc1200 blanch?a1400 white?a1425 whiten1548 whitewash1576 to whiten up1808 overbleach1857 1808 E. Hamilton Cottagers of Glenburnie vi. 104 The..cottages..being so whitened up, that no one can have the comfort of laying a dirty hand upon them without leaving the impression. 1853 N.Y. Times 16 May 1/3 The milkmen..rarely ever put in enough water to render it [sc. milk] blue, and necessitate the employment of chalk or magnesia to whiten it up again. 1905 W. D. Howells London Films ix. 83 A housemaid..scrubbing down and whitening up the front steps of a stately mansion. 1932 San Antonio (Texas) Express 23 Mar. 9/4 (advt.) Now stop useless brushing and whiten up your teeth right away! 2006 P. Morsi Cotton Queen 294 Do not, under any circumstances, bring me coffee that's been whitened up with powdered creamer. 3. Originally and chiefly U.S. a. transitive. To apply white colour to (the body, esp. the face), typically in order to play the part of a white person. Cf. to blacken up 1 at blacken v. Phrasal verbs. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > the theatre or the stage > the staging of a theatrical production > stage [verb (transitive)] > make up to make up1778 to whiten up1842 to blacken up1861 to black up1877 to white up1906 1842 Weekly Herald (N.Y.) 7 May 260/3 A half dozen negroes took it into their woolly pates to ape the whites.., so whitened up their phizes with chalk and paint. 1890 C. Cole Auroraphone iii. 67 Mel and I hurriedly whitened up our faces..set our features into corpse-like rigidity, and..awaited developments. 1955 Jet 1 Sept. 46 The heavy coat of make-up..made her appear as though she had been ‘whitened up’ by over-zealous make-up artists. 2009 Evening Standard (Nexis) 9 Apr. 14 Death and the King's Horseman..is an exploration of colonialism using the storytelling conventions of Nigeria, where they whiten up black faces to represent imperial masters. b. intransitive. To apply white colour to one's body, esp. the face, typically in order to play the part of a white person. Cf. to blacken up 2 at blacken v. Phrasal verbs. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > the theatre or the stage > the staging of a theatrical production > stage [verb (intransitive)] > make up black1579 blacken1699 to make up1839 to whiten up1878 to blacken up1884 to black up1890 to white up1890 1878 St. Louis Globe-Democrat 6 Nov. 7/4 Sometimes she would have to whiten up.., and other times she'd black up completely to play Topsy. 1886 Sullivan (Indiana) Democrat 3 Aug. White persons have blacked up to imitate negroes from time immemorial. For a negro to ‘whiten up’ to personate a white person is something new. 1908 Sunday Post (Boston) 27 Sept. 25/1 The twin stars will impersonate the characters usually assumed by white artists... Instead of ‘blacking up’ they will ‘whiten up’. 2006 C. R. Daileader in A. Thompson Colorblind Shakespeare iii. xi. 218 What if an actress of color—like Whoopi Goldberg in her appearance at the Oscars—were to ‘whiten up’ for the Liz Taylor look? 4. Chiefly U.S. a. transitive. To make (more) white in ethnic or cultural identity, character, or style; = sense 4. ΚΠ 1868 [implied in: Daily National Intelligencer (Washington) 29 Jan. Any opposition to slavery..looked to the ultimate whitening up of all the Southern States.]. 1902 St. Nicholas Dec. 124/2 ‘Louizy..'s a ole black-skin name...’ ‘But don't you think maybe we mought sort o' whiten up Louizy into Loueezy.., or maybe into Louise?’ 1961 Times 27 Nov. 11/3 A century of progress would whiten up the yellow races and inter-marriage would do the rest. 1987 J. M. Curtis Rock Eras ii. ix. 104 If Motown whitened up fifties rhythm and blues, the Beach Boys whitened up rock 'n' roll in general. 2004 C. N. Davidson Revol. & World (rev. ed.) 23 History has ‘whitened up’ the patriots who died during the Boston Massacre. It makes them New Englanders.., not multicultural, multinational dock workers. b. intransitive. To become (more) white in ethnic or cultural identity, character, or style. ΚΠ 1968 W. D. Jordan White over Black v. 517 The only hope for Americans who balked at Negro slavery..lay in the proposition that Negroes in America were going to whiten up. 1981 Washington Post 26 July g7/2 Just as [Kenny] Rogers has tried to tighten up, [Lionel] Richie seems to have whitened up. 2009 C. Corbould Becoming Afr. Amer. 16 American nativism..led to an insistence that such [sc. African American] immigrants whiten up, become ‘100 percent American’. extracted from whitenv. < as lemmas
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