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WASH

Definition:

1. [noun] a thin coat of water-base paint
   
   
2. [noun] the work of cleansing (usually with soap and water)
   Synonyms: ing, lavation
   
   
3. [noun] the dry bed of an intermittent stream (as at the bottom of a canyon)
   Synonyms: dry
   
   
4. [noun] 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"
   Synonyms: out
   
   
5. [noun] the flow of air that is driven backwards by an aircraft propeller
   Synonyms: slipstream, airstream, race, back
   
   
6. [noun] a watercolor made by applying a series of monochrome washes one over the other
   Synonyms: drawing
   
   
7. [noun] garments or white goods that can be cleaned by laundering
   Synonyms: laundry, ing, ables
   
   
8. [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"
   
   
9. [verb] clean with some chemical process
   Synonyms: rinse
   
   
10. [verb] cleanse (one's body) with soap and water
    Synonyms: lave
    
    
11. [verb] cleanse with a cleaning agent, such as soap, and water; "Wash the towels, please!"
    Synonyms: launder
    
    
12. [verb] move by or as if by water; "The swollen river washed away the footbridge"
    
    
13. [verb] be capable of being washed; "Does this material wash?"
    
    
14. [verb] admit to testing or proof; "This silly excuse won't wash in traffic court"
    
    
15. [verb] separate dirt or gravel from (precious minerals)
    
    
16. [verb] apply a thin coating of paint, metal, etc., to
    
    
17. [verb] 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"
    Synonyms: out, off, away
    
    
18. [verb] form by erosion; "The river washed a ravine into the mountainside"
    
    
19. [verb] make moist; "The dew moistened the meadows"
    Synonyms: moisten, dampen
    
    
20. [verb] wash or flow against; "the waves laved the shore"
    Synonyms: lave, lap
    
    
21. [verb] to cleanse (itself or another animal) by licking; "The cat washes several times a day"
    
    

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Related Words:

• elute
• sponge down
• scrub, scrub up
• gargle, rinse
• shampoo
• hush
• water-wash
• wash, rinse
• wash out
• pressure-wash, powerwash
• suds
• rinse, rinse off
• cradle
• stonewash, stone-wash
• handwash, hand-wash
• machine wash, machine-wash
• acid-wash
• pan, pan out, pan off
• whitewash
• humidify, moisturize, moisturise
• baste
• blackwash
• calcimine
• color wash, colour wash
• whitewash
• washup, bathing
• ablution
• dishwashing, washup
• washing-up
• window-washing
• rinse
• soak, soaking
• laundering
• rain-wash

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