What is the meaning of the word "wash"?
Definitions:
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admit to testing or proof verb
- This silly excuse won't wash in traffic court
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any enterprise in which losses and gains cancel out noun
- at the end of the year the accounting department showed that it was a wash
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be capable of being washed verb
- Does this material wash?
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form by erosion verb
- The river washed a ravine into the mountainside
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move by or as if by water verb
- The swollen river washed away the footbridge
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remove by the application of water, other liquid, soap or other cleaning agent verb
- I washed the dirt from my coat.
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the erosive process of washing away soil or gravel by water, as from a roadway noun
- I watched the wash remove mud from our driveway.
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to cleanse (itself or another animal) by licking verb
- The cat washes several times a day
Synonyms:
- airstream
- backwash
- dampen
- dry wash
- lap
- launder
- laundry
- lavation
- lave
- moisten
- race
- rinse
- slipstream
- wash away
- wash drawing
- wash off
- wash out
- washables
- washing
- washout