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wash

English

  1. 🔊 the work of cleansing (usually with soap and water)
  2. 🔊 any enterprise in which losses and gains cancel out
    “at the end of the year the accounting department showed that it was a wash”
  3. 🔊 a watercolor made by applying a series of monochrome washes one over the other
  4. 🔊 a thin coat of water-base paint
  5. 🔊 the dry bed of an intermittent stream (as at the bottom of a canyon)
  6. 🔊 garments or white goods that can be cleaned by laundering
  7. 🔊 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”
  8. 🔊 the flow of air that is driven backwards by an aircraft propeller
  9. 🔊 to cleanse (itself or another animal) by licking
    “The cat washes several times a day”
  10. 🔊 cleanse (one's body) with soap and water
  11. 🔊 form by erosion
    “The river washed a ravine into the mountainside”
  12. 🔊 remove by the application of water or other liquid and soap or some other cleaning agent
    “he washed the dirt from his coat”
  13. 🔊 apply a thin coating of paint, metal, etc., to
  14. 🔊 clean with some chemical process
  15. 🔊 cleanse with a cleaning agent, such as soap, and water
    “Wash the towels, please!”
  16. 🔊 separate dirt or gravel from (precious minerals)
  17. 🔊 move by or as if by water
    “The swollen river washed away the footbridge”
  18. 🔊 admit to testing or proof
    “This silly excuse won't wash in traffic court”
  19. 🔊 be capable of being washed
    “Does this material wash?”
  20. 🔊 make moist
    “The dew moistened the meadows”
  21. 🔊 wash or flow against
    “the waves laved the shore”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 lavar to wash
  2. 🔊 limpiar to wash
  3. 🔊 enjuague wash, mouthwash

Similar words

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