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Definition of 'wash' Noun
- a thin coat of water-base paint
- the work of cleansing (usually with soap and water)
Synonyms: washing lavation - the dry bed of an intermittent stream (as at the bottom of a canyon)
Synonyms: dry wash - 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: washout - the flow of air that is driven backwards by an aircraft propeller
Synonyms: slipstream airstream race backwash - a watercolor made by applying a series of monochrome washes one over the other
Synonyms: wash drawing - garments or white goods that can be cleaned by laundering
Synonyms: laundry washing washables - any enterprise in which losses and gains cancel out; "at the end of the year the accounting department showed that it was a wash"
Verb
- clean with some chemical process
Synonyms: rinse - cleanse (one's body) with soap and water
Synonyms: lave - cleanse with a cleaning agent, such as soap, and water; "Wash the towels, please!"
Synonyms: launder - move by or as if by water; "The swollen river washed away the footbridge"
- be capable of being washed; "Does this material wash?"
- admit to testing or proof; "This silly excuse won't wash in traffic court"
- separate dirt or gravel from (precious minerals)
- apply a thin coating of paint, metal, etc., to
- 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: wash out wash off wash away - form by erosion; "The river washed a ravine into the mountainside"
- make moist; "The dew moistened the meadows"
Synonyms: moisten dampen - wash or flow against; "the waves laved the shore"
Synonyms: lave lap - to cleanse (itself or another animal) by licking; "The cat washes several times a day"
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