blackwashed
blackwashed is the simple past and past participle of blackwash.
Adjective
blackwashed (not comparable)
- Covered in the color black.
- My cell had blackwashed walls, and I spent the next year in almost total darkness.2004, Hans Halberstadt, War Stories of the Green Berets, →ISBN, page 171
- Having been villainized through a blackwashing campaign
Meaning of blackwash
Verb
blackwash (third-person singular simple present blackwashes, present participle blackwashing, simple past and past participle blackwashed)
- To villainize, to present in a damaging light.
- Near-synonyms: tar, smear, besmirch
- Antonyms:
- whitewash, launder, rehabilitate
- To cover with a black color.
- The masts of British frigates and U.S. warships blackwashed the piers at the Embarcadero.2004, Peter Plate, Fogtown, page 109
- Synonyms:
- blacken
- To portray in a revisionist fashion as belonging to a black race of people.
- Basquiat's epic-size, experimental canvases betray his radical determination to blackwash not solely history but art history.2019, Celeste-Marie Bernier, Stick to the Skin, page 102
Antonyms of blackwashed
Origin of blackwashed
From blackwash + -ed.
Questions about blackwashed
- What does blackwashed mean?
- Blackwashed means covered in the color black.
- What is blackwashed the simple past and past participle of?
- Blackwashed is the simple past and past participle of blackwash.
- What part of speech is blackwashed?
- Blackwashed is an adjective.
Words near blackwashed in the dictionary
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