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Wash   /wɑʃ/   Listen
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



... business to his mariner Arad-Ea: "'The man whom thou hast brought, his body is covered with ulcers, the leprous scabs have spoiled the beauty of his body. Take him, Arad-Ea, lead him to the place of purification, let him wash his ulcers white as snow in the water, let him get rid of his scabs, and let the sea bear them away so that at length his body may appear healthy. He will then change the fillet which binds his brows, and the loin-cloth which hides his ...
— History Of Egypt, Chaldaea, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 3 (of 12) • G. Maspero

... masses of set-up type, were washed. Inky streams issuing thence blended with the ooze from the kitchen sink, and found their way into the kennel in the street outside; till peasants coming into the town of a market day believed that the Devil was taking a wash inside the establishment. ...
— Lost Illusions • Honore De Balzac

... there and wash up, if you want to—I don't care. Only promise me you'll come around. I want you to see me make a show of myself. You'll have a good laugh—you old grouch," he added, with sudden good humor, "and after it's over we'll go up to my house and have a ...
— Tom Slade with the Colors • Percy K. Fitzhugh

... pulling down, and thinking of the end of all things. Cut your timber, mow your grass, make your hay, not while the sun shines, but while the moon wanes; also stuff your feather-bed then, and so kill the newly plucked feathers completely, and bring them to rest. Wash your linen, too, by the waning moon, that the dirt may disappear with the dwindling light. [394] According to one old notion it was deemed unlucky to assume a new dress when the moon was in her decline. So says the Earl of Northampton: "They forbidde us when the moone is in a fixed signe, ...
— Moon Lore • Timothy Harley

... huge landlord, with the utmost gravity, 'show the gentleman into number seven that he may wash his ...
— The Pocket George Borrow • George Borrow


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