blackwater

[ blak-waw-ter, -wot-er ]

noun

, Pathology.

1. any of several human or animal diseases characterized by the production of dark urine as a result of the rapid breakdown of red blood cells.
2. blackwater fever.

blackwater

/ blăk′wô′tər /

1. Wastewater containing bodily or other biological wastes, as from toilets, dishwashers, or kitchen drains.
2. Compare graywater

Word History and Origins

Origin of blackwater¹

First recorded in 1790–1800; black + water

Example Sentences

But what—beside perhaps killing ISIS members—could The Artist Formerly Known As Blackwater do for the world today?

From The Daily Beast

So I asked him what he sees in terms of the humanitarian potential for something like Blackwater in the world today.

From The Daily Beast

The subsequent investigation of this shooting was what prompted a Blackwater manager to threaten a State Department official.

From The Daily Beast

“American Embassy officials in Baghdad sided with Blackwater rather than the State Department investigators,” the paper notes.

From The Daily Beast

Blackwater operated during the Iraq war with a sense that they were untouchable because—well, because they were.

From The Daily Beast

With a heavy heart he set out for the Blackwater, and began building a fort there.

From Project Gutenberg

He had his experiments to watch, his potatoes and tobacco, his yellow wallflowers, in the pleasant garden by the Blackwater.

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He was bound to one of the logs down in the great stone pot of Blackwater Eddy.

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Considerably increased in volume by this addition, it hastens to Maldon and its confluence with the Blackwater.

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The shooting country is hardly broken between Benfleet and the Blackwater.

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