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wash
English
- 🔊 the work of cleansing (usually with soap and water)
- 🔊 any enterprise in which losses and gains cancel out“at the end of the year the accounting department showed that it was a wash”
- 🔊 a watercolor made by applying a series of monochrome washes one over the other
- 🔊 a thin coat of water-base paint
- 🔊 the dry bed of an intermittent stream (as at the bottom of a canyon)
- 🔊 garments or white goods that can be cleaned by laundering
- 🔊 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 flow of air that is driven backwards by an aircraft propeller
- 🔊 to cleanse (itself or another animal) by licking“The cat washes several times a day”
- 🔊 cleanse (one's body) with soap and water
- 🔊 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”
- 🔊 apply a thin coating of paint, metal, etc., to
- 🔊 clean with some chemical process
- 🔊 cleanse with a cleaning agent, such as soap, and water“Wash the towels, please!”
- 🔊 separate dirt or gravel from (precious minerals)
- 🔊 move by or as if by water“The swollen river washed away the footbridge”
- 🔊 admit to testing or proof“This silly excuse won't wash in traffic court”
- 🔊 be capable of being washed“Does this material wash?”
- 🔊 make moist“The dew moistened the meadows”
- 🔊 wash or flow against“the waves laved the shore”
Spanish
- 🔊 lavar to wash
- 🔊 limpiar to wash
- 🔊 enjuague wash, mouthwash