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Quick definitions from WordNet (wash)
▸ noun: the work of cleansing (usually with soap and water)
▸ 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")
▸ noun: a watercolor made by applying a series of monochrome washes one over the other
▸ noun: a thin coat of water-base paint
▸ noun: the dry bed of an intermittent stream (as at the bottom of a canyon)
▸ noun: garments or white goods that can be cleaned by laundering
▸ 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")
▸ noun: the flow of air that is driven backwards by an aircraft propeller
▸ verb: move by or as if by water ("The swollen river washed away the footbridge")
▸ verb: form by erosion ("The river washed a ravine into the mountainside")
▸ verb: admit to testing or proof ("This silly excuse won't wash in traffic court")
▸ verb: be capable of being washed ("Does this material wash?")
▸ verb: to cleanse (itself or another animal) by licking ("The cat washes several times a day")
▸ verb: cleanse (one's body) with soap and water
▸ verb: remove by the application of water or other liquid and soap or some other cleaning agent ("He washed the dirt from his coat")
▸ verb: apply a thin coating of paint, metal, etc., to
▸ verb: clean with some chemical process
▸ verb: cleanse with a cleaning agent, such as soap, and water ("Wash the towels, please!")
▸ verb: separate dirt or gravel from (precious minerals)
▸ verb: make moist
▸ verb: wash or flow against
▸ name: A surname (rare: 1 in 100000 families; popularity rank in the U.S.: #8337)
▸ Also see washs
▸ Word origin
▸ Words similar to wash
▸ Usage examples for wash
▸ Idioms related to wash (New!)
▸ Popular adjectives describing wash
▸ Words that often appear near wash
▸ Rhymes of wash
▸ Invented words related to wash
▸ noun: the work of cleansing (usually with soap and water)
▸ 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")
▸ noun: a watercolor made by applying a series of monochrome washes one over the other
▸ noun: a thin coat of water-base paint
▸ noun: the dry bed of an intermittent stream (as at the bottom of a canyon)
▸ noun: garments or white goods that can be cleaned by laundering
▸ 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")
▸ noun: the flow of air that is driven backwards by an aircraft propeller
▸ verb: move by or as if by water ("The swollen river washed away the footbridge")
▸ verb: form by erosion ("The river washed a ravine into the mountainside")
▸ verb: admit to testing or proof ("This silly excuse won't wash in traffic court")
▸ verb: be capable of being washed ("Does this material wash?")
▸ verb: to cleanse (itself or another animal) by licking ("The cat washes several times a day")
▸ verb: cleanse (one's body) with soap and water
▸ verb: remove by the application of water or other liquid and soap or some other cleaning agent ("He washed the dirt from his coat")
▸ verb: apply a thin coating of paint, metal, etc., to
▸ verb: clean with some chemical process
▸ verb: cleanse with a cleaning agent, such as soap, and water ("Wash the towels, please!")
▸ verb: separate dirt or gravel from (precious minerals)
▸ verb: make moist
▸ verb: wash or flow against
▸ name: A surname (rare: 1 in 100000 families; popularity rank in the U.S.: #8337)
▸ Also see washs
▸ Word origin
▸ Words similar to wash
▸ Usage examples for wash
▸ Idioms related to wash (New!)
▸ Popular adjectives describing wash
▸ Words that often appear near wash
▸ Rhymes of wash
▸ Invented words related to wash