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Syllable division and stress derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
blackwater is a noun meaning "any of several human or animal diseases characterized by dark urine resulting from rapid breakdown of red blood cells". It carries one recorded sense.
any of several human or animal diseases characterized by dark urine resulting from rapid breakdown of red blood cells
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for blackwater come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.