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Wash

verb

(past & past part. washed; pres. part. washing)

1.

Clean with some chemical process. Synonym: rinse.

2.

Cleanse (one's body) with soap and water. Synonym: lave.

3.

Cleanse with a cleaning agent, such as soap, and water. Synonym: launder.

4.

Move by or as if by water.

5.

Be capable of being washed.

6.

Admit to testing or proof.

7.

Separate dirt or gravel from (precious minerals).

8.

Apply a thin coating of paint, metal, etc., to.

9.

Remove by the application of water or other liquid and soap or some other cleaning agent. Synonyms: wash away, wash off, wash out. "The nurse washed away the blood" , "Can you wash away the spots on the windows?" , "He managed to wash out the stains"

10.

Form by erosion.

11.

Make moist. Synonyms: dampen, moisten.

12.

Wash or flow against. Synonyms: lap, lave.

13.

To cleanse (itself or another animal) by licking.

noun

1.

A thin coat of water-base paint.

2.

The work of cleansing (usually with soap and water). Synonyms: lavation, washing.

3.

The dry bed of an intermittent stream (as at the bottom of a canyon). Synonym: dry wash.

4.

The erosive process of washing away soil or gravel by water (as from a roadway). Synonym: washout.

5.

The flow of air that is driven backwards by an aircraft propeller. Synonyms: airstream, backwash, race, slipstream.

6.

A watercolor made by applying a series of monochrome washes one over the other. Synonym: wash drawing.

7.

Garments or white goods that can be cleaned by laundering. Synonyms: laundry, washables, washing.

8.

Any enterprise in which losses and gains cancel out.

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"Wash" Quotes from Famous Books

... the simple tackle designed to keep it in control. A watchman crouched in the meagre shade of a fan-like structure overhanging the bow deck. The roofing and the floor, where exposed, were clean, even bright; in all other parts subject to the weather and the wash there was only the blackness of pitch. The steersman sat on a bench at the stern. Occasionally, from force of habit, he rested a hand upon the rudder-oar to be sure it was yet in reach. With exception of the two, the lookout ...

— The Prince of India - Or - Why Constantinople Fell - Volume 1 • Lew. Wallace

... wiped their eyes, and blowed their noses, and sighed two or three times, one of them said to the others, "Don't cry any more. Let's get our little pails and fill them with water and borrow a piece of soap from the cook, and wash our mittens." ...

— Little Mittens for The Little Darlings - Being the Second Book of the Series • Frances Elizabeth Barrow

... rode, taking advantage of the cool breath of night. Toward morning he stopped at a sand-wash where three or four dusty cottonwoods relieved the vegetation of mesquite, palo verde, and cacti. Among the rocks a spring rose hesitant to the surface and struggled faintly for life against the palpitating heat and ...

— Steve Yeager • William MacLeod Raine

... and death of Berselius had been an object lesson for him, teaching vividly the fact that evil is indestructible; that wash yourself with holy water or wash yourself with soap, you will never wash away the evil being that you have constructed by long years of evil-doing ...

— The Pools of Silence • H. de Vere Stacpoole

... speaking-trumpets, and marine glasses almost contemporary with the Ark. Sellers of mussels and clams squatted beside their heaps of shellfish and yawped their goods. Seamen rolled by with tar-pots, smoking soup-bowls, and big baskets full of cuttlefish, from which they went to wash the ink in the ...

— Tartarin of Tarascon • Alphonse Daudet

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