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wash
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Verb
  • to cleanse (itself or another animal) by licking
    • The cat washes several times a day
  • wash or flow against
    • the waves laved the shore
  • make moist
    • The dew moistened the meadows
  • form by erosion
    • The river washed a ravine into the mountainside
  • remove by the application of water or other liquid and soap or some other cleaning agent
    • he washed the dirt from his coat
    • The nurse washed away the blood
    • Can you wash away the spots on the windows?
    • he managed to wash out the stains
  • apply a thin coating of paint, metal, etc., to
  • separate dirt or gravel from (precious minerals)
  • admit to testing or proof
    • This silly excuse won't wash in traffic court
  • be capable of being washed
    • Does this material wash?
  • move by or as if by water
    • The swollen river washed away the footbridge
  • cleanse with a cleaning agent, such as soap, and water
    • Wash the towels, please!
  • cleanse (one's body) with soap and water
  • clean with some chemical process
Noun
  • any enterprise in which losses and gains cancel out
    • at the end of the year the accounting department showed that it was a wash
  • garments or white goods that can be cleaned by laundering
  • a watercolor made by applying a series of monochrome washes one over the other
  • the flow of air that is driven backwards by an aircraft propeller
  • the erosive process of washing away soil or gravel by water (as from a roadway)
    • from the house they watched the washout of their newly seeded lawn by the water
  • the dry bed of an intermittent stream (as at the bottom of a canyon)
  • the work of cleansing (usually with soap and water)
  • a thin coat of water-base paint
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