different between encrust vs whitewash

English

Alternative forms

• incrust

Etymology

From French incruster, from Latin incrustare, from in- (“in”) + crustare (“to cover with a crust”). See crust.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?st

Verb

encrust (third-person singular simple present encrusts, present participle encrusting, simple past and past participle encrusted)

1. (transitive) To cover with a hard crust.

   iron encrusted with rust

   a doughnut encrusted with sugar

   • And by the frost refin'd the whiter snow, / Incrusted hard.

2. (intransitive) To form a crust.
3. (transitive) To inset or affix decorative materials upon (a surface); to inlay into, as a piece of carving or other ornamental object.

   The jeweller encrusted the ring with gems.

Translations

English

Etymology

white +? wash

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?wa?tw??/
• Rhymes: -a?tw??

Noun

whitewash (countable and uncountable, plural whitewashes)

1. A lime and water mixture for painting walls and fences bright white.
2. (sports) A complete victory or series of victories without suffering any losses; a clean sweep.
3. (obsolete) Any liquid composition for whitening something, such as a wash for making the skin fair.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Addison to this entry?)

4. (politics) A campaign to paper over unfavorable elements.

   Antonym: blackwash
5. (Britain, slang, obsolete) A glass of sherry as a finale, after drinking port and claret.
   • 1883, Cassell's Dictionary of Cookery (page lxxxiii)

     The bottles, however, were port bottles, but contained mushroom ketchup; and we can only say with regard to the 15s. sherry, that it would have made an admirable "whitewash," as Sheridan's glass is still sometimes called, […]

   • 1950, Wine & the Wine Trade (page 28)

     Sercial was also used as a sort of white-wash after the Port at dinner, those were the days when people had time to drink both Port and a White wash.

Derived terms

• whitewashing
• whitewashed

Translations

References

• (glass of sherry): 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary

Verb

whitewash (third-person singular simple present whitewashes, present participle whitewashing, simple past and past participle whitewashed)

1. To paint over with a lime and water mixture so as to brighten up a wall or fence.

2. (figuratively) To cover over errors or bad actions.

   Antonym: blackwash
3. (dated, transitive) To repay the financial debts of (another person).
4. (baseball, slang, dated, late, 19th century, archaic) To prevent a team from scoring any runs.
5. (US, Britain, slang) In various games, to defeat (an opponent) so that they fail to score, or to reach a certain point in the game; to skunk.
6. (derogatory) To make over (a person or character, a group, an event, etc) so that it is or seems more white, for example by applying makeup to a person, or by covering over the participation of people of color in an event and focusing on only white participation.

Derived terms

• bluewash
• brownwash
• cloudwash
• greenwash
• pinkwash

Translations

Further reading

• whitewash on Wikipedia.Wikipedia