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whiteout

[ UK /wˈa‍ɪta‍ʊt/ ]
VERB
  1. cover up with a liquid correction fluid
    white-out the typo
  2. lose daylight visibility in heavy fog, snow, or rain
NOUN
  1. an arctic atmospheric condition with clouds over snow produce a uniform whiteness and objects are difficult to see; occurs when the light reflected off the snow equals the light coming through the clouds

How To Use whiteout In A Sentence

  • The pictures are of the base, during the summer (there's light outside...) not the winter and certainly not in the middle of a Phase III (can you say "whiteout" ?) Making Light: Snowpocalypse Part Next
  • If you haven't already seen the movie, it will spoil nothing to tell you that the accident, discreetly shown as a "Six Feet Under" - style whiteout, is not fatal. September 2005
  • Stetko is suddenly involved in two races against time—first, she needs to solve the mystery before the transfer of personnel and she must solve it before a massive storm moves across the camp, resulting in a storm called a whiteout, where vision the hundred-mile-per-hour winds reduce vision to no more than six inches. Archive 2009-09-01
  • You know, Jacqui, when we hear of cases like this we always hear of that term whiteout conditions. CNN Transcript Feb 18, 2007
  • Then the onslaught, the irresistible brightening, until everything exploded in a total, dazzling whiteout. GRACE
  • We're talking about a complete whiteout, which is what we've been seeing from our live reports. CNN Transcript Feb 12, 2006
  • They survived altitude sickness, enormous blisters, countless frozen snowdrifts, known as sastrugi, and blinding whiteouts. Renegade Futurist
  • Teacher shows Ss some real objects, like glue, notebook, folder, whiteout and sticker to draw the children's attention. Introduce the new words.
  • With killer temperatures and a complete whiteout on area highways, traffic was at a standstill and not one hotel room in the entire city was available.
  • Bowman remembered a description he had once heard of the dreaded Antarctic "whiteout" - "like being inside a ping-pong ball. 2001 A Space Odyssey
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