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单词 blackwash
释义 ˈblackwash, v.
[f. prec. n.]
1. trans. To wash or colour with a black liquid.
c1770Used by H. Walpole.1861Times 12 July, The Gueux..whitewashed the façades. But they also blackwashed the paintings of Van Eyck and Memlinc.
2. fig. To blacken the character of; to asperse, calumniate. (Cf. whitewash.)
1869St. Clair & Br. Resid. Bulgaria Pref. 7 The Rayah has been too much whitewashed..whilst the Turk has been too much blackwashed by his enemies.1875Helps Soc. Press. xii. 160 He ‘black-washes’..the whole human race.
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