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Wash out   /wɑʃ aʊt/   Listen
Wash out

verb
1.
Prevent or interrupt due to rain.  Synonym: rain out.
2.
Wash free from unwanted substances, such as dirt.
3.
Wear or destroy by the force of water.
4.
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"
5.
Deplete of strength or vitality.
6.
Drain off the color in the course of laundering.
7.
Lose color in the process of being washed.






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... free incision into the most prominent part of the abscess or cyst, then, with a syringe, wash out the sac with carbolized water. If the abscess recurs, open it again, wash it out, and inject tincture of iodin, or fill it ...
— Special Report on Diseases of Cattle • U.S. Department of Agriculture

... reserves of energy by their help, suspend fatigue, put off sleep during long spells of exertion. At some sudden crisis for example. When we shall know enough to know just how far to go with this, that or the other stuff. And how to wash out its after effects.... I quite agree with you,—in principle.... But that time hasn't come yet.... Decades of research yet.... If we tried that sort of thing now, we should be like children playing with poisons and explosives.... ...
— The Secret Places of the Heart • H. G. Wells

... precious promises to the early prophets, who have faithfully handed them down to us; and then came Emmanuel and his heavenly army, and all this to conquer Mansoul! Without the shedding of blood, there is no remission of sin. The blood of bulls and of goats cannot wash out our stains. We must be found in Christ as part of his mystical body, and thus in perfection obey the Divine law, and then, through the sin-atoning offering of Emmanuel, God's equal, eternal Son, a fountain is opened for sin and uncleanness, ...
— The Works of John Bunyan • John Bunyan

... repeatedly at the house, and Isabella had totally refused to see him; and how his father had tried to reason with General Harero about Captain Bezan, and how the general had declared that nothing but blood could wash out the ...
— The Heart's Secret - The Fortunes of a Soldier, A Story of Love and the Low Latitudes • Maturin Murray

... moist nasal catarrh, or from a dry type in which crusts of offensive mucus form, the disagreeable odour of which is not apparent to the patient himself. He must pay careful attention to the general health, take nourishing food, and wash out the nose three times a ...
— Epilepsy, Hysteria, and Neurasthenia • Isaac G. Briggs


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