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Wash out

verb

Prevent or interrupt due to rain. Synonym: rain out.

Wash free from unwanted substances, such as dirt.

Wear or destroy by the force of water.

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

Deplete of strength or vitality.

Drain off the color in the course of laundering.

Lose color in the process of being washed.

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"Wash out" Quotes from Famous Books

... water circulating under Alpine glaciers is enabled to wash out and carry away the mass of pulverized rock and dirt ground along underneath the ice. But when the glaciers covered such an enormous extent of country as they did in the Glacial Age, the water could not sweep away this detritus, and so great beds of gravel, ...

— The Prehistoric World - Vanished Races • E. A. Allen

... intensity, the chill and penetrating frost of their gaze. Somehow, too, those large and beautiful eyes had appeared to grow smaller with the passing of the years, not with tears, for there are tears that wash out all else but beauty in some women's eyes, but with the barren drought of feeling which goes to sap the ...

— The Way of the Wind • Zoe Anderson Norris

... ruby juice of Sloes enters largely into the manufacture of British port wine, to which it communicates a beautiful deep red colour, and a pleasant sub-acid roughness. Letters marked upon linen fabric with this juice, when used fresh, will not wash out. ...

— Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure • William Thomas Fernie

... frowzy interior, and he wondered. The men seemed to have begun their nightly orgie early. Then it occurred to him that perhaps Crombie's men had returned, and were out to make a night of it. He smiled to himself. They would need a good deal of drink to wash out the taste of the bitter ...

— The One-Way Trail - A story of the cattle country • Ridgwell Cullum

... water or lower side of tank as on the upper side, where it is clear. See that he keeps his tank clean. We have seen tanks with one-half inch of mud in the bottom. We know that there are times when you are compelled to use muddy water, but as soon as it is possible to get clear water make him wash out his tank, and don't let him haul it around till the boiler gets ...

— Rough and Tumble Engineering • James H. Maggard

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