wash

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wash
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Meanings
verb
  • clean with water and, typically, soap or detergent.
    E.g. Auntie Lou had washed all their clothes
  • (of flowing water) carry (someone or something) in a particular direction.
    E.g. floods washed away the bridges
  • brush with a thin coat of dilute paint or ink.
    E.g. the walls were washed with shades of umber
  • seem convincing or genuine.
    E.g. charm won't wash with this crew
noun
  • an act of washing something or an instance of being washed.
    E.g. her hair needs a wash
  • the water or air disturbed by a moving boat or aircraft.
    E.g. the wash of a motorboat
  • an inlet of the North Sea on the east coast of England between Norfolk and Lincolnshire.
  • a medicinal or cleansing solution.
    E.g. citrus-scented body wash
  • a layer of paint or metal spread thinly on a surface.
    E.g. the walls were covered with a pale lemon wash
  • silt or gravel carried by a stream or river and deposited as sediment.
  • kitchen slops and other food waste fed to pigs.
  • malt fermenting in preparation for distillation.
  • a situation or result that is of no benefit to either of two opposing sides.
    E.g. the plan's impact on jobs would be a wash, creating as many as it costs
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abbreviation
  • Washington.

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