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washing, lavation, laundry, washables, wash drawing, dry wash, slipstream, airstream, race, backwash, washout, lave, lap, moisten, dampen, wash out, wash off, wash away, rinse, launder Definition: 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";garments or white goods that can be cleaned by laundering;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);the flow of air that is driven backwards by an aircraft propeller;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";to cleanse (itself or another animal) by licking; "The cat washes several times a day";cleanse (one''s body) with soap and water;wash or flow against; "the waves laved the shore";make moist; "The dew moistened the meadows";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"; "The nurse washed away the blood"; "Can you wash away the spots on the windows?"; "he managed to wash out the stains";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?";
See Also: wash up, lave Hyponyms: washup, bathing, ablution, dishwashing, washing-up, window-washing, rinse, soak, soaking, laundering, blackwash, calcimine, color wash, colour wash, whitewash, rain-wash, sponge down, scrub, scrub up, gargle, shampoo, hush, humidify, moisturize, moisturise, baste, elute, water-wash, wash out, pressure-wash, powerwash, suds, rinse off, cradle, stonewash, stone-wash, handwash, hand-wash, machine wash, machine-wash, acid-wash, pan, pan out, pan off Grouped Verbs: lave, rinse, wash out, launder, wash off, wash away Entailments: rinse, rinse off Derivational Morphology:
wash up, lave, launder, rinse, wash out, washing, lavation, lavage, dampener, moistener, moistening, dampening, moisture, wet, laundry, washables, washer, automatic washer, washing machine Anagrams:
shwa, Shaw
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