What is the meaning of the word "wash"?

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  1. admit to testing or proof copy to clipboard verb
    • This silly excuse won't wash in traffic court copy to clipboard
  2. any enterprise in which losses and gains cancel out copy to clipboard noun
    • at the end of the year the accounting department showed that it was a wash copy to clipboard
  3. be capable of being washed copy to clipboard verb
    • Does this material wash? copy to clipboard
  4. form by erosion copy to clipboard verb
    • The river washed a ravine into the mountainside copy to clipboard
  5. move by or as if by water copy to clipboard verb
    • The swollen river washed away the footbridge copy to clipboard
  6. remove by the application of water, other liquid, soap or other cleaning agent copy to clipboard verb
    • I washed the dirt from my coat. copy to clipboard
  7. the erosive process of washing away soil or gravel by water, as from a roadway copy to clipboard noun
    • I watched the wash remove mud from our driveway. copy to clipboard
  8. to cleanse (itself or another animal) by licking copy to clipboard verb
    • The cat washes several times a day copy to clipboard

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