[
US
/ˈbæˌkwɑʃ/
]
[ UK /bˈækwɒʃ/ ]
[ UK /bˈækwɒʃ/ ]
NOUN
- the flow of air that is driven backwards by an aircraft propeller
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the wave that spreads behind a boat as it moves forward
the motorboat's wake capsized the canoe -
the consequences of an event (especially a catastrophic event)
in the wake of the accident no one knew how many had been injured
the aftermath of war
How To Use backwash In A Sentence
- The interior of the suction device is sleeved with a nozzle unit device which can inject backwash water to a suction port and the low pressure area of the filter screen part.
- He wakes up, downs the backwash left in a cheap beer bottle, and dons his pilot gear.
- Occasionally, two or three waves stack on top of each other, and the backwash is sucked into the breaking waves, spraying white foam 25 feet into the sky.
- Perhaps the most important issue, however, is the possibility of causing curriculum backwash.
- The beach itself was quite steep, and there was a very severe backwash.
- Once I backwashed into my UCTBFHD and ended up admitted as an inpatient with pyelonephritis and I haven't used it since. BSNYC Friday Fun Quiz!
- The challenges facing not only this country, but the world, in the backwash of these events require more than parliamentary parrots squawking on their publicly funded perch.
- I list it along with bluebottles, broken glass, backwash and muggers - the last-mentioned not actually in the surf but lurking in the nearby sanddunes, waiting for an opportune moment to interface with you and your valuables.
- Apparently he was swept out to sea by a strong backwash.
- But the development of continuing education must eventually have a backwash effect on initial professional education at the undergraduate stage.
