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noun
A whitewash victory for any New Zealand national sporting team.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: New-Zealand, countable, slang, uncountable
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noun
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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, slang, uncountable
Topics: ball-games, cricket, games, hobbies, lifestyle, sports
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noun
A lotion made by mixing calomel and limewater.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: medicine, sciences
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noun
Public campaigns and advertising funded by the coal industry to draw attention away from environmentally unsustainable practices or to justify exclusion from carbon taxes.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, slang, uncountable
Topics: business, mining
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noun
A villainization campaign.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: government, politics
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verb
To villainize, to present in a damaging light.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Synonyms: tar, smear, besmirch
Antonyms: whitewash, launder, rehabilitate
verb
To cover with a black color.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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Synonyms: blacken
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verb
To portray in a revisionist fashion as belonging to a black race of people.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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Broader terms: misportray
noun
a wash that colors a surface black
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: wash
noun
a mixture of calomel and limewater that is used on syphilitic sores
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: black lotion
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: lotion, application
noun
an attack intended to ruin someone's reputation
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: character assassination, assassination
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: defamation, calumny, calumniation, obloquy, traducement, hatchet job
verb
color with blackwash
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: color, colorize, colorise, colourise, colourize, colour, color in, colour in
verb
bring (information) out of concealment
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: none provided
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Broader terms: unwrap, disclose, let on, bring out, reveal, discover, expose, divulge, break, give away, let out
History
From black + -wash or black + wash (depending on sense).
