The difference between Blackwash and Whitewash
When used as nouns, blackwash means a whitewash victory for any new zealand national sporting team, whereas whitewash means a lime and water mixture for painting walls and fences bright white.
When used as verbs, blackwash means to villainize, to present in a damaging light, whereas whitewash means to paint over with a lime and water mixture so as to brighten up a wall or fence.
check bellow for the other definitions of Blackwash and Whitewash
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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.
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Whitewash as a noun:
A lime and water mixture for painting walls and fences bright white.
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Whitewash as a noun (sports):
A complete victory or series of victories without suffering any losses; a clean sweep.
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Whitewash as a noun (obsolete):
Any liquid composition for whitening something, such as a wash for making the skin fair.
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Whitewash as a noun (politics):
A campaign to paper over unfavorable elements.
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Whitewash as a verb:
To paint over with a lime and water mixture so as to brighten up a wall or fence.
Examples:
"The houses looked very bright when they whitewashed the whole neighborhood''."
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Whitewash as a verb (idiomatic):
To cover over errors or bad actions.
Examples:
"In his sermon, the minister didn't try to whitewash over the sins of his church''."
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Whitewash as a verb (dated, transitive):
To repay the financial debts of (another person).
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Whitewash as a verb (baseball, slang, dated, late, 19th century, archaic):
To prevent a team from scoring any runs.
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Whitewash as a verb (US, UK, slang):
In various games, to defeat (an opponent) so that they fail to score, or to reach a certain point in the game; to skunk.
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Whitewash as a verb (pejorative):
To make over (a person or character, a group, an event, etc) so that it is or seems more white, for example by applying makeup to a person, or by covering over the participation of people of color in an event and focusing on only white participation.
Examples:
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