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WHITENING

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Changing to a lighter color

Synonyms:

lightening; whitening

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("whitening" is a kind of...):

change of color (an act that changes the light that something reflects)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "whitening"):

bleach (the act of whitening something by bleaching it (exposing it to sunlight or using a chemical bleaching agent))

Derivation:

whiten (turn white)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

-ing form of the verb whiten

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 Context examples: 

Our findings show that a Western diet causes hair loss, hair whitening and skin inflammation in mice, and we believe a similar process occurs in men who lose hair and experience hair whitening when they eat a diet high in fat and cholesterol, Chatterjee said in a Hopkins news release.

(New Experimental Drug Reverses Hair Loss, Skin Damage, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Patients with coronary artery disease had a statistically significant higher hair whitening score and higher coronary artery calcification than those without coronary artery disease.

(Grey Hair Linked with Increased Heart Disease Risk in Men, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

In multivariate regression analysis, age, hair whitening score, hypertension and dyslipidaemia were independent predictors of the presence of atherosclerotic coronary artery disease.

(Grey Hair Linked with Increased Heart Disease Risk in Men, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)