blackwater

1. 1.

   any of several human or animal diseases characterized by dark urine resulting from rapid breakdown of red blood cells

   Broaderdisease

Other forms of blackwater

plural

blackwaters·

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.

Questions about blackwater

What does blackwater mean?

blackwater means "any of several human or animal diseases characterized by dark urine resulting from rapid breakdown of red blood cells".

How many syllables are in blackwater?

blackwater has 3 syllables: blac-kwa-ter. The stress falls on "blac".

Is blackwater a common word?

blackwater is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.