Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Wastewater containing bodily or other biological wastes, as from toilets, dishwashers, or kitchen drains, and kept separate from graywater in wastewater recycling systems.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A disease of sheep.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun any of several human or animal diseases characterized by dark urine resulting from rapid breakdown of red blood cells; -- used especially of blackwater fever, a severe form of malaria caused by the blood parasite
Plasmodium falciparum .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
Waste water likely to contain significant quantities of fecal matter.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun any of several human or animal diseases characterized by dark urine resulting from rapid breakdown of red blood cells
Etymologies
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Examples
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January 1st, 2010 5: 51 pm ET you mean blackwater is still in Iraq? but I thought you libs hated blackwater?
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I thought you hated the verdict just handed down? you mean blackwater is actually increasing their presence as we draw down troop levels? you mean we have a left President and a left Congress and blackwater levels are increasing? but how could that be? that goes against everything you libs stand for, that would make all you libs who cry about blackwater sound stupid and ignorant! how could that be???
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Any river that flowed from marshlands was referred to as a blackwater river because it was darkened by deposits of decaying vegetation.
A Lincoln Rhyme eBook Boxed Set Jeffery Deaver 2001
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Unlike blackwater, which is water that has touched excrement, like toilet water, greywater is safe to use in watering your garden.
WN.com - Articles related to 40 ways to celebrate Earth Day’s 40th Anniversary 2010
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Unlike blackwater, which is water that has touched excrement, like toilet water, greywater is safe to use in watering your garden.
WN.com - Articles related to 40 ways to celebrate Earth Day’s 40th Anniversary 2010
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Unlike blackwater, which is water that has touched excrement, like toilet water, greywater is safe to use in watering your garden.
WN.com - Articles related to 40 ways to celebrate Earth Day’s 40th Anniversary 2010
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Unlike blackwater, which is water that has touched excrement, like toilet water, greywater is safe to use in watering your garden.
WN.com - Articles related to 40 ways to celebrate Earth Day’s 40th Anniversary 2010
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WAR, INC. affects and will affect people through its comedy and simultaneous tragedy. the real and the absurd. we laugh at something that is seemingly funny, par example, the "blackwater" spoof. however, underneath that extremely comedic scene is an atrocious truth. it's genius.
Vicky Ward: John Cusack's Viral Success Story: Vanity Fair Fair, Vanity 2008
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Some background here - one of the issues referred to here is the management of "blackwater" from the Ariel settlement.
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Some background here - one of the issues referred to here is the management of "blackwater" from the Ariel settlement.
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