Blackwash

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To bring from concealment; disclose.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. (New Zealand) a whitewash victory for any New Zealand national sporting team (also known as a blackout)
  • n. (cricket) a whitewash victory for the West Indies cricket team
  • n. A lotion made by mixing calomel and limewater.
  • n. public campaigns and advertising funded by the coal industry to draw attention away from environmentally unsustainable practices or to justify exclusion from carbon taxes.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A lotion made by mixing calomel and lime water.
  • n. A wash that blackens, as opposed to whitewash; hence, figuratively, calumny.
  • v. same as defame.
  • v. to color with blackwash.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A lotion composed of calomel and lime-water.
  • n. Any wash that blackens.
  • n. In molding, a clay wash to which powdered charcoal has been added. See blacking, 3.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. color with blackwash
  • v. bring (information) out of concealment
  • n. an attack intended to ruin someone's reputation
  • n. a mixture of calomel and limewater that is used on syphilitic sores
  • n. a wash that colors a surface black
  • Antonym
    whitewash   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    colour    colourize    colorise    color    color in   
    Variant
    defame