Read full poem →Some in the fields of purest ether play,
And bask and whiten in the blaze of day:
Some guide the course of wandering orbs on high,
Dictionary Entry
(To cause) to become white or whiter; to bleach or blanch.
In a Sentence
“Age had whitened his hair.”
Origin
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Common Phrases
. whitenet whitenwhiten knuckleswhiten andrewwhiten face
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Synonyms
Poetry examples for “whiten”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →In a war against kind,
Till the bloom of her fields and her high hills whiten
With the foam of his waves more high. 110
Read full poem →Yet once more ere time change us, ere my cheek
Whiten, ere hope be dumb or sorrow speak,
Yet once more ere thou hate me, one full kiss;
Read full poem →denser and fierier throng,
And the world that thy breath bade whiten and tremble rejoices at
heart as they strengthen and shine,
Read full poem →"One came from Penmon westward, and a glow
Whiten'd his face from the sun's fronting ray;
Eastward the other, from the dying day,
Read full poem →On her grave shall the cowslip and primrose be cast,
And the new-blossom’d thorn shall whiten her tomb.”
Read full poem →Too close attention, they will invite me
To whiten my bones among them.
Read full poem →The arm of my friend hanging idly over my shoulder,
The hillside whiten’d with blossoms of the mountain ash,
The same late in autumn, the hues of red, yellow, drab, purple, and