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

  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.

  1. Whitewash as a noun:

    A lime and water mixture for painting walls and fences bright white.

  2. Whitewash as a noun (sports):

    A complete victory or series of victories without suffering any losses; a clean sweep.

  3. Whitewash as a noun (obsolete):

    Any liquid composition for whitening something, such as a wash for making the skin fair.

    Examples:

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  4. Whitewash as a noun (politics):

    A campaign to paper over unfavorable elements.

  1. 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''."

  2. 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''."

  3. Whitewash as a verb (dated, transitive):

    To repay the financial debts of (another person).

  4. Whitewash as a verb (baseball, slang, dated, late, 19th century, archaic):

    To prevent a team from scoring any runs.

  5. 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.

  6. 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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