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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

... had lost all shame and failed to connect there with the French train for the rest of our journey. So, instead of having barely time to affirm our innocence of tobacco, spirits, or perfumes to the customs officers, and to wash down a sandwich with a cup of coffee at the restaurant, we had an hour and forty minutes at Ventimiglia, which I partly spent in vain attempts to buy the poverty of the inspector so far as to prevail with him not to delay the examination of our baggage, but to proceed to it at once, ...

— Roman Holidays and Others • W. D. Howells

... absence cf colour but, the veil of negative definitions having been pierced, were found to be a mystic union of colour and more inclusive than white. The very dark seemed delicately vocal and to "fill the waste with sound" no less than the wash of the waves. St. George awoke deliciously confused by a returning sense of the sweet and the joy of ...

— Romance Island • Zona Gale

... followed her son's thought and did not seek to elicit verbal explanation of the certainty which justified so large a venture. "Oh, I hope not," she said. "Sarah's threatening to leave, anyway; and she gets so cross if there's extra cooking on wash-days." ...

— The Flirt • Booth Tarkington

... in the country; more and more inclined was he to throw up the whole blessed law at once and for ever. This partly-formed resolution he communicated to Mr. Bumpkin, and assured him that, but for the case of Bumpkin v. Snooks, he would do so on that very afternoon, and wash his hands of it. ...

— The Humourous Story of Farmer Bumpkin's Lawsuit • Richard Harris

... said Joel, running over to the wash-basin, and plunging his head in, to come up bright and smiling. "See, Dave, I'm all right," he announced, his black eyes shining. "But he's a mean beggar to steal my ...

— Five Little Peppers at School • Margaret Sidney

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