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UK
/wˈɒʃ/
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[ US /ˈwɑʃ/ ]
[ US /ˈwɑʃ/ ]
VERB
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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.
- 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
- 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
- And thus the Washington Post column on David's congressional testimony, where he is described "hunched" and said to have "barked," "growled" and "snarled" -- language you would use to describe an animal. Humanizing al Qaeda, Demonizing the Bush Team
- The 27 models on display in Washington, supplemented by paintings, drawings, sculpture and medallions, show the products of a rising social structure and new technique.
- The pouring of pure water scented with jasmine oil washes away worries.
- Washington, who believed liquor a particular scourge among blacks, sent felicitations. LAST CALL
- Its heroes were beastly revellers or cruel and ferocious plunderers; its heroines unsexed hoidens, playing the ugliest tricks with their lovers, and repaying slights with bloody revenge, -- very dangerous and unsatisfactory companions for any other than the fire - eating Vikings and redhanded, unwashed Berserkers. The Conflict with Slavery and Others, Complete, Volume VII, The Works of Whittier: the Conflict with Slavery, Politics and Reform, the Inner Life and Criticism
- Curiously, for a politician who made much of the fact that what happened in the rest of the world was not always Washington's concern, diplomacy has been the keynote of his first months in office.