BLACKWASH

blackwash

(noun) a wash that colors a surface black

blackwash, black lotion

(noun) a mixture of calomel and limewater that is used on syphilitic sores

blackwash

(verb) color with blackwash

blackwash

(verb) bring (information) out of concealment

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Etymology

Noun

blackwash (countable and uncountable, plural blackwashes)

(slang, New Zealand) A whitewash victory for any New Zealand national sporting team.

(slang, cricket) 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.

(medicine) A lotion made by mixing calomel and limewater.

(slang, mining) public campaigns and advertising funded by the coal industry to draw attention away from environmentally unsustainable practices or to justify exclusion from carbon taxes.

(chiefly, politics) A villainization campaign

Synonyms

• (New Zealand victory): blackout

Antonyms

• (villainization): whitewash

Verb

blackwash (third-person singular simple present blackwashes, present participle blackwashing, simple past and past participle blackwashed)

(transitive) To villainize, to present in a damaging light.

(transitive) To blacken, to cover with a black color.

Antonyms

• (villainize): whitewash

Anagrams

• black haws

Source: Wiktionary

Black" wash` or Black"wash, n.

1. (Med.)

Definition: A lotion made by mixing calomel and lime water.

2. A wash that blackens, as opposed to whitewash; hence, figuratively, calumny. To remove as far as he can the modern layers of black wash, and let the man himself, fair or foul, be seen. C. Kingsley.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition