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bluewash

bluewash verb: to use a blue paint or glaze.

Verb

bluewash (third-person singular simple present bluewashes, present participle bluewashing, simple past and past participle bluewashed)

  1. (transitive) To use a blue paint or glaze.
  2. (transitive) To tout a business or organization's commitment to social responsibility, and to use this perception for public relations and economic gain; to present a humanitarian front in this manner.
    • Corporations ...bluewash by suggesting ethical leadership and affiliating with the United Nations.2006. William S. Laufer. Corporate Bodies and Guilty Minds: The Failure of Corporate Criminal Liability, page 164

Noun

bluewash (countable and uncountable, plural bluewashes)

  1. A wash of blue paint or glaze.
    • beautified with bluewash

Forms of bluewash

Verb
third-person singular presentbluewashes
present participlebluewashing
past participlebluewashed
pastbluewashed
Noun
pluralbluewashes

Origin of bluewash

From blue + -wash.

Questions about bluewash

What does bluewash mean?
Bluewash means to use a blue paint or glaze.
What part of speech is bluewash?
Bluewash can be a verb or a noun.
What is the past tense of bluewash?
The past tense of bluewash is bluewashed.

Words near bluewash in the dictionary

  1. bluets
  2. bluette
  3. bluettes
  4. blueward
  5. bluewards
  6. bluewash
  7. bluewashed
  8. bluewashes
  9. bluewashing
  10. bluewater
  11. Bluewater Village

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