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
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Blackout as a noun:
A temporary loss of consciousness.
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Blackout as a noun:
A temporary loss of memory.
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Blackout as a noun:
An instance of , especially a temporary one.
Examples:
"the 2012 English Wikipedia blackout"
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Blackout as a noun:
A large-scale power failure, and resulting loss of electricity to consumers.
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Blackout as a noun (historical):
The mandatory blocking of all light emanating from buildings as imposed during World War II.
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Blackwash as a noun (slang, New Zealand):
A whitewash victory for any New Zealand national sporting team.
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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.
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Blackwash as a noun (medicine):
A lotion made by mixing calomel and limewater.
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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.
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Blackwash as a noun (chiefly, politics):
A villainization campaign
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Blackwash as a verb (transitive):
To villainize, to present in a damaging light.
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Blackwash as a verb (transitive):
To blacken, to cover with a black color.