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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

... seaport of the Thames. Such a bridge would, again, concentrate upon itself the traffic of all that important and formerly wealthy part of the island which bulges out to the east between the estuary of the Thames and the Wash, and which must necessarily have desired communication both with the still wealthier southern portion and with the Continent. But, more important than this, London Bridge also concentrated upon itself all the up-country traffic in ...

— The Historic Thames • Hilaire Belloc

... world, gets to be thought narrowness, and becomes a hindrance to our entering. As Naaman's servant put a common-sense question to him, so may I to you. 'If the prophet had bid thee do some great thing, wouldest thou not have done it?' Ay! that you would! 'How much more when He says "Wash and be clean!"' There is only one way of getting dirt off, and that is by water. There is only one way of getting sin off, and that is by the blood of Jesus Christ. There is only one way of having that blood applied to your heart, and that is trusting Him. 'The common salvation' becomes ...

— Expositions of Holy Scripture: Romans Corinthians (To II Corinthians, Chap. V) • Alexander Maclaren

... that won't wash, you know," said Percy. "Anyhow, it's nonsense you being so precious stiff with him; I'm sure he's as ...

— A Dog with a Bad Name • Talbot Baines Reed

... went ashore to wash our clothes. The others went with them, because we do not wish to annoy any one, and desired to be alone that we might celebrate the Lord's Supper. I could not leave the ship, but was with ...

— The Moravians in Georgia - 1735-1740 • Adelaide L. Fries

... seed of work?—even though the sprouting was so long put off. Everything, I have mentioned, had come at this time to be acceptedly, though far from braggingly, put off; and the ministrations of M. Ansiot really wash themselves over with the weak mixture that had begun to spread for me, to immensity, during that summer day or two of our earlier residence when, betraying strange pains and apprehensions, I was with all decision put to bed. ...

— A Small Boy and Others • Henry James

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