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Blackwash
noun, verb, slang
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Noun
- 1 A whitewash victory for any New Zealand national sporting team. New-Zealand, countable, slang, uncountable
- 2 a wash that colors a surface black wordnet
- 3 A whitewash victory for the West Indies cricket team. Started in the 1984–86 "Blackwash" series of the West Indian cricket team in England in 1984. countable, slang, uncountable
- 4 a mixture of calomel and limewater that is used on syphilitic sores wordnet
- 5 A lotion made by mixing calomel and limewater. countable, uncountable
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- 6 an attack intended to ruin someone's reputation wordnet
- 7 Public campaigns and advertising funded by the coal industry to draw attention away from environmentally unsustainable practices or to justify exclusion from carbon taxes. countable, slang, uncountable
- 8 A villainization campaign. countable, uncountable
Verb
- 1 To villainize, to present in a damaging light. transitive
"Near-synonyms: tar, smear, besmirch"
- 2 color with blackwash wordnet
- 3 To cover with a black color. transitive
"The masts of British frigates and U.S. warships blackwashed the piers at the Embarcadero."
- 4 bring (information) out of concealment wordnet
- 5 To portray in a revisionist fashion as belonging to a black race of people. transitive
"Basquiat's epic-size, experimental canvases betray his radical determination to blackwash not solely history but art history."
Etymology
Etymology 1
From black + -wash or black + wash (depending on sense).
Etymology 2
From black + -wash or black + wash (depending on sense).
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