blackwater
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.
Origin of blackwater
1Words Nearby blackwater
Other definitions for black water (2 of 2)
wastewater from toilets, garbage disposal, and industrial processes.
- Compare gray water.
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How to use blackwater in a sentence
But what—beside perhaps killing ISIS members—could The Artist Formerly Known As blackwater do for the world today?
Blackwater Founder Wants to Fight Ebola, ISIS, and for the GOP to ‘Get Off Their Ass’ | Asawin Suebsaeng | September 20, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTSo I asked him what he sees in terms of the humanitarian potential for something like blackwater in the world today.
Blackwater Founder Wants to Fight Ebola, ISIS, and for the GOP to ‘Get Off Their Ass’ | Asawin Suebsaeng | September 20, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe subsequent investigation of this shooting was what prompted a blackwater manager to threaten a State Department official.
“American Embassy officials in Baghdad sided with blackwater rather than the State Department investigators,” the paper notes.
blackwater operated during the Iraq war with a sense that they were untouchable because—well, because they were.
With a heavy heart he set out for the blackwater, and began building a fort there.
Ireland Under the Tudors, Vol. II (of 3) | Richard BagwellHe had his experiments to watch, his potatoes and tobacco, his yellow wallflowers, in the pleasant garden by the blackwater.
Sir Walter Ralegh | William StebbingHe was bound to one of the logs down in the great stone pot of blackwater Eddy.
The Backwoodsmen | Charles G. D. RobertsConsiderably increased in volume by this addition, it hastens to Maldon and its confluence with the blackwater.
The shooting country is hardly broken between Benfleet and the blackwater.
British Dictionary definitions for black water
household waste water that cannot be reused without purification: Compare grey water
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Scientific definitions for blackwater
[ blăk′wô′tər ]
Wastewater containing bodily or other biological wastes, as from toilets, dishwashers, or kitchen drains. Compare graywater.
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