The difference between Blackout and Blackwash

When used as nouns, blackout means a temporary loss of consciousness, whereas blackwash means a whitewash victory for any new zealand national sporting team.


Blackwash is also verb with the meaning: to villainize, to present in a damaging light.

check bellow for the other definitions of Blackout and Blackwash

  1. Blackout as a noun:

    A temporary loss of consciousness.

  2. Blackout as a noun:

    A temporary loss of memory.

  3. Blackout as a noun:

    An instance of , especially a temporary one.

    Examples:

    "the 2012 English Wikipedia blackout"

  4. Blackout as a noun:

    A large-scale power failure, and resulting loss of electricity to consumers.

  5. Blackout as a noun (historical):

    The mandatory blocking of all light emanating from buildings as imposed during World War II.

  1. Blackwash as a noun (slang, New Zealand):

    A whitewash victory for any New Zealand national sporting team.

  2. Blackwash as a noun (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.

  3. Blackwash as a noun (medicine):

    A lotion made by mixing calomel and limewater.

  4. Blackwash as a noun (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.

  5. Blackwash as a noun (chiefly, politics):

    A villainization campaign

  1. Blackwash as a verb (transitive):

    To villainize, to present in a damaging light.

  2. Blackwash as a verb (transitive):

    To blacken, to cover with a black color.

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