blackwash

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A whitewash victory for any New Zealand national sporting team. New-Zealand,countable,slang,uncountable
  2. 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
  3. A lotion made by mixing calomel and limewater. countable,uncountable
  4. 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
  5. A villainization campaign. countable,uncountable
动词 v.
  1. To villainize, to present in a damaging light. transitive
    — Near-synonyms: tar, smear, besmirch
  2. To cover with a black color. transitive
    — The masts of British frigates and U.S. warships blackwashed the piers at the Embarcadero.
  3. 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.

词形变化

blackwashes plural blackwashes present,singular,third-person blackwashing participle,present blackwashed participle,past blackwashed past

词汇关系

反义词
whitewash
衍生词
blackwashing blackwashed blackwasher
相关词
blackface

词源

词源 1
From black + -wash or black + wash (depending on sense).
词源 2
From black + -wash or black + wash (depending on sense).
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