[
UK
/wˈɒʃ/
]
[ US /ˈwɑʃ/ ]
[ US /ˈwɑʃ/ ]
VERB
-
admit to testing or proof
This silly excuse won't wash in traffic court -
be capable of being washed
Does this material wash? -
make moist
The dew moistened the meadows -
cleanse with a cleaning agent, such as soap, and water
Wash the towels, please! - separate dirt or gravel from (precious minerals)
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to cleanse (itself or another animal) by licking
The cat washes several times a day -
remove by the application of water or other liquid and soap or some other cleaning agent
he managed to wash out the stains
he washed the dirt from his coat
The nurse washed away the blood
Can you wash away the spots on the windows? - apply a thin coating of paint, metal, etc., to
- clean with some chemical process
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move by or as if by water
The swollen river washed away the footbridge -
form by erosion
The river washed a ravine into the mountainside - cleanse (one's body) with soap and water
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wash or flow against
the waves laved the shore
NOUN
- a watercolor made by applying a series of monochrome washes one over the other
- the dry bed of an intermittent stream (as at the bottom of a canyon)
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the erosive process of washing away soil or gravel by water (as from a roadway)
from the house they watched the washout of their newly seeded lawn by the water - the flow of air that is driven backwards by an aircraft propeller
- garments or white goods that can be cleaned by laundering
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any enterprise in which losses and gains cancel out
at the end of the year the accounting department showed that it was a wash - a thin coat of water-base paint
- the work of cleansing (usually with soap and water)
How To Use wash In A Sentence
- Sewage overflowed into wash basins at West Middlesex Hospital following a blockage in one of the toilets.
- The B horizon, commonly referred to as subsoil, accumulates material washed out of the A horizon, such as clay, salts, and iron. 5. How plants live and grow
- Her name means happiness, but she is a widow with five children who makes ends meet by washing clothes for the neighbourhood and preparing injera, the unleavened bread prepared today as it was 1000 years ago.
- Meanwhile, the sister is trying to maintain standards and dignity, washing her clothes and covering her body.
- Mr Boardman said: ‘I was out walking with my wife and dog when we happened across a little cove and we found the creature in the flotsam that had been washed up.’
- Upstairs were the bedrooms; mother-and-fathers room the largest; a smaller room for one or two sons, another for one or two daughters; each of these rooms containing a double bed, a washstand, a bureau, a wardrobe, a little table, a rocking-chair, and often a chair or two that had been slightly damaged downstairs, but not enough to justify either the expense of repair or decisive abandonment in the attic. Chapter 1
- He goes hysterical when I even wash his face in the bath, and if water gets in his hair it is even worse.
- 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.
- Is the thrill of washing his socks so great that you have to pay council tax from the same address? The Sun
- The Lord ministered to her, offering unconditional love and acceptance and washing her clean from the grime of her experience. Growing Through Loss and Grief
