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Wash 1Definition: To cleanse by ablution, or dipping or rubbing in water; to apply water or other liquid to for the purpose of cleansing; to scrub with water, etc., or as with water; as, to wash the hands or body; to wash garments; to wash sheep or wool; to wash the pavement or floor; to wash the bark of trees.
Wash 2Definition: To cover with water or any liquid; to wet; to fall on and moisten; hence, to overflow or dash against; as, waves wash the shore. Wash 3Definition: To waste or abrade by the force of water in motion; as, heavy rains wash a road or an embankment. Wash 4Definition: To remove by washing to take away by, or as by, the action of water; to drag or draw off as by the tide; often with away, off, out, etc.; as, to wash dirt from the hands. Wash 5Definition: To cover with a thin or watery coat of color; to tint lightly and thinly. Wash 6Definition: To overlay with a thin coat of metal; as, steel washed with silver. Wash 7Definition: To perform the act of ablution. Wash 8Definition: To clean anything by rubbing or dipping it in water; to perform the business of cleansing clothes, ore, etc., in water. Wash 9Definition: To bear without injury the operation of being washed; as, some calicoes do not wash. Wash 10Definition: To be wasted or worn away by the action of water, as by a running or overflowing stream, or by the dashing of the sea; said of road, a beach, etc. Wash 11Definition: The act of washing; an ablution; a cleansing, wetting, or dashing with water; hence, a quantity, as of clothes, washed at once. Wash 12Definition: A piece of ground washed by the action of a sea or river, or sometimes covered and sometimes left dry; the shallowest part of a river, or arm of the sea; also, a bog; a marsh; a fen; as, the washes in Lincolnshire. Wash 13Definition: Substances collected and deposited by the action of water; as, the wash of a sewer, of a river, etc. Wash 14Definition: Waste liquid, the refuse of food, the collection from washed dishes, etc., from a kitchen, often used as food for pigs. Wash 15Definition: The fermented wort before the spirit is extracted. Wash 16Definition: A mixture of dunder, molasses, water, and scummings, used in the West Indies for distillation. Wash 17Definition: That with which anything is washed, or wetted, smeared, tinted, etc., upon the surface. Wash 18Definition: A liquid cosmetic for the complexion. Wash 19Definition: A liquid dentifrice. Wash 20Definition: A liquid preparation for the hair; as, a hair wash. Wash 21Definition: A medical preparation in a liquid form for external application; a lotion. Wash 22Definition: A thin coat of color, esp. water color. Wash 23Definition: A thin coat of metal laid on anything for beauty or preservation. Wash 24Definition: The blade of an oar, or the thin part which enters the water. Wash 25Definition: The flow, swash, or breaking of a body of water, as a wave; also, the sound of it. Wash 26Definition: Ten strikes, or bushels, of oysters. Wash 27Definition: Washy; weak. Wash 28Definition: Capable of being washed without injury; washable; as, wash goods. wash 29Definition: the work of cleansing (usually with soap and water) wash 30Definition: any enterprise in which losses and gains cancel out; "at the end of the year the accounting department showed that it was a wash" wash 31Definition: garments or white goods that can be cleaned by laundering wash 32Definition: a watercolor made by applying a series of monochrome washes one over the other wash 33Definition: a thin coat of water-base paint wash 34Definition: the dry bed of an intermittent stream (as at the bottom of a canyon) wash 35Definition: the flow of air that is driven backwards by an aircraft propeller wash 36Definition: 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" wash 37Definition: to cleanse (itself or another animal) by licking; "The cat washes several times a day" wash 38Definition: cleanse (one''s body) with soap and water wash 39Definition: wash or flow against; "the waves laved the shore" wash 40Definition: make moist; "The dew moistened the meadows" wash 41Definition: form by erosion; "The river washed a ravine into the mountainside" wash 42Definition: remove by the application of water or other liquid and soap or some other cleaning agent; "he washed the dirt from his coat"; "The nurse washed away the blood"; "Can you wash away the spots on the windows?"; "he managed to wash out the stains" wash 43Definition: apply a thin coating of paint, metal, etc., to wash 44Definition: clean with some chemical process wash 45Definition: cleanse with a cleaning agent, such as soap, and water; "Wash the towels, please!" wash 46Definition: separate dirt or gravel from (precious minerals) wash 47Definition: move by or as if by water; "The swollen river washed away the footbridge" wash 48Definition: admit to testing or proof; "This silly excuse won''t wash in traffic court" wash 49Definition: be capable of being washed; "Does this material wash?"
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