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 Definitions of Wash  [ɒʃ, wɔʃ]  

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Definition of 'Wash' Random House Webster's College Dictionary 

1. (v.t.) wash
to cleanse by dipping, rubbing, or scrubbing in water or some other liquid.

2.  wash
to remove (dirt or other matter) by or as if by the action of water.

3.  wash
to free from spiritual defilement or from sin, guilt, etc.

4.  wash
to moisten with water or other liquid.

5.  wash
to flow through, over, or against:
a beach washed by waves.

6.  wash
to carry, remove, or deposit by means of water or any liquid:
A sailor was washed overboard.

7.  wash
(of water) to form by flowing over and eroding a surface:
The flood washed a new channel through the gully.

8.  wash
to subject (earth or ore) to the action or force of water in order to separate valuable material.

9.  wash
to separate (valuable material) in this way.

10.  wash
to cover with a watery or thin coat of color.

11.  wash
to overlay with a thin coat or deposit of metal:
to wash brass with gold.

12. (v.i.) wash
to wash oneself.

13.  wash
to wash clothes.

14.  wash
to cleanse anything in a liquid.

15.  wash
to undergo washing without shrinking, fading, etc.

16.  wash
Informal. to prove true when subjected to testing:
His alibi simply won't wash.

17.  wash
to be carried or driven by water.

18.  wash
to flow or beat with a lapping sound, as waves.

19.  wash
to move along in or as if in waves.

20.  wash
to be removed by the action of water (often fol. by away).

21.  wash
wash down,

22.  wash
to clean completely by washing.

23.  wash
to facilitate the swallowing of (food or medicine) by drinking liquid.

24.  wash
wash out,

25.  wash
to be removed by washing.

26.  wash
to damage or demolish by the action of water:
The embankment was washed out by the storm.

27.  wash
Informal. to fail to qualify or continue; be eliminated:
to wash out of graduate school.

28.  wash
wash up,

29.  wash
to wash one's face and hands:
to wash up before dinner.

30.  wash
to wash dishes, flatware, etc.

31. (n.) wash
the act or process of washing with water or other liquid.

32.  wash
a quantity of clothes, linens, etc., washed, or to be washed, at one time:
a heavy wash.

33.  wash
a liquid with which something is colored, overspread, etc.:
She gave the room a wash of pale blue.

34.  wash
the flow, sweep, or breaking of water.

35.  wash
the sound made by this.

36.  wash
water moving along in waves or with a rushing movement:
the wash of the incoming tide.

37.  wash
the rough or broken water left behind a moving ship, boat, etc.; wake.

38.  wash
the disturbance in the air left behind by a moving airplane or any of its parts:
wing wash.

39.  wash
any of various liquids for grooming:
a hair wash.

40.  wash
a lotion or other liquid having medicinal properties (often used in combination): mouthwash.

41.  wash
a tract of land washed by the action of the sea or a river.

42.  wash
a marsh or bog.

43.  wash
a small stream or shallow pool.

44.  wash
a shallow arm of the sea or a shallow part of a river.

45.  wash
a depression or channel formed by flowing water.

46.  wash
Western U.S. the dry bed of a stream.

47.  wash
a broad, thin layer of color applied by a continuous movement of the brush, as in watercolor painting.
a gold wash.

48.  wash
waste liquid matter, refuse, food, etc., from the kitchen, as for hogs; swill (often used in combination):
hogwash.

49.  wash
weak or watered liquor.

50. (adj.) wash
capable of being washed without shrinking, fading, etc.; washable.

51.  wash
come out in the wash,

52.  wash
to result eventually in something satisfactory.

53.  wash
to be made known eventually.

54. (n.) Wash
the, a shallow bay of the North Sea, on the coast of E England. 20 mi. (32 km) long; 15 mi. (24 km) wide.


Definition of 'Wash' Princeton's WordNet 

1. (noun) wash
a thin coat of water-base paint

2. (noun) wash, washing, lavation
the work of cleansing (usually with soap and water)

3. (noun) wash, dry wash
the dry bed of an intermittent stream (as at the bottom of a canyon)

4. (noun) washout, wash
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"

5. (noun) slipstream, airstream, race, backwash, wash
the flow of air that is driven backwards by an aircraft propeller

6. (noun) wash, wash drawing
a watercolor made by applying a series of monochrome washes one over the other

7. (noun) laundry, wash, washing, washables
garments or white goods that can be cleaned by laundering

8. (verb) wash
any enterprise in which losses and gains cancel out
"at the end of the year the accounting department showed that it was a wash"

9. (verb) wash, rinse
clean with some chemical process

10. (verb) wash, lave
cleanse (one's body) with soap and water

11. (verb) wash, launder
cleanse with a cleaning agent, such as soap, and water
"Wash the towels, please!"

12. (verb) wash
move by or as if by water
"The swollen river washed away the footbridge"

13. (verb) wash
be capable of being washed
"Does this material wash?"

14. (verb) wash
admit to testing or proof
"This silly excuse won't wash in traffic court"

15. (verb) wash
separate dirt or gravel from (precious minerals)

16. (verb) wash
apply a thin coating of paint, metal, etc., to

17. (verb) wash, wash out, wash off, wash away
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"

18. (verb) wash
form by erosion
"The river washed a ravine into the mountainside"

19. (verb) moisten, wash, dampen
make moist
"The dew moistened the meadows"

20. (verb) lave, lap, wash
wash or flow against
"the waves laved the shore"

21. (verb) wash
to cleanse (itself or another animal) by licking
"The cat washes several times a day"


Definition of 'Wash' Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary 

1. (verb) wash
to clean with water and usually soap
a woman washing her hair/hands; Wash the white clothes in hot water.; Make sure to wash yourself thoroughly.

2.  wash
(of water) to push somewhere
The car was washed downstream when the river flooded.

3. (noun) wash
an act of washing
The dirt came out after two washes.; Give your hands a wash.

4.  wash
do a wash
to wash a number of pieces of clothing
I'm going to do a white/dark wash.


Definition of 'Wash' Webster Dictionary 

1. (adj) Wash
washy; weak

2. (adj) Wash
capable of being washed without injury; washable; as, wash goods

3. (noun) Wash
the act of washing; an ablution; a cleansing, wetting, or dashing with water; hence, a quantity, as of clothes, washed at once

4. (noun) Wash
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

5. (noun) Wash
substances collected and deposited by the action of water; as, the wash of a sewer, of a river, etc

6. (noun) Wash
waste liquid, the refuse of food, the collection from washed dishes, etc., from a kitchen, often used as food for pigs

7. (noun) Wash
the fermented wort before the spirit is extracted

8. (noun) Wash
a mixture of dunder, molasses, water, and scummings, used in the West Indies for distillation

9. (noun) Wash
that with which anything is washed, or wetted, smeared, tinted, etc., upon the surface

10. (noun) Wash
a liquid cosmetic for the complexion

11. (noun) Wash
a liquid dentifrice

12. (noun) Wash
a liquid preparation for the hair; as, a hair wash

13. (noun) Wash
a medical preparation in a liquid form for external application; a lotion

14. (noun) Wash
a thin coat of color, esp. water color

15. (noun) Wash
a thin coat of metal laid on anything for beauty or preservation

16. (noun) Wash
the blade of an oar, or the thin part which enters the water

17. (noun) Wash
the backward current or disturbed water caused by the action of oars, or of a steamer's screw or paddles, etc

18. (noun) Wash
the flow, swash, or breaking of a body of water, as a wave; also, the sound of it

19. (noun) Wash
ten strikes, or bushels, of oysters

20. (verb) Wash
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

21. (verb) Wash
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

22. (verb) Wash
to waste or abrade by the force of water in motion; as, heavy rains wash a road or an embankment

23. (verb) Wash
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

24. (verb) Wash
to cover with a thin or watery coat of color; to tint lightly and thinly

25. (verb) Wash
to overlay with a thin coat of metal; as, steel washed with silver

26. (verb) Wash
to perform the act of ablution

27. (verb) Wash
to clean anything by rubbing or dipping it in water; to perform the business of cleansing clothes, ore, etc., in water

28. (verb) Wash
to bear without injury the operation of being washed; as, some calicoes do not wash

29. (verb) Wash
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


Translation of 'Wash' Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary 

Sense: to clean (a thing or person, especially oneself) with (soap and) water or other liquid
How often do you wash your hair?; You wash (the dishes) and I'll dry; We can wash in the stream.

Afrikaans flag Afrikaans: was Arabic flag Arabic: يَغْسِل Bulgarian flag Bulgarian: измивам
Brazilian flag Brazilian: lavar(-se) Czech flag Czech: mít (se) German flag German: (ab)waschen
Danish flag Danish: vaske Greek flag Greek: πλένω, πλένομαι Spanish flag Spanish: lavar(se)
Estonian flag Estonian: pesema Farsi flag Farsi: شستن Finnish flag Finnish: pestä
French flag French: (se) laver Hebrew flag Hebrew: לִרחוֹץ Hindi flag Hindi: धोना
Croatian flag Croatian: prati Hungarian flag Hungarian: mosakodik; (meg)mos Indonesian flag Indonesian: mencuci
Icelandic flag Icelandic: þvo Italian flag Italian: lavare, lavarsi Japanese flag Japanese: 洗う
Korean flag Korean: 씻다 Lithuanian flag Lithuanian: plauti, praustis Latvian flag Latvian: mazgāt; mazgāties
Malay flag Malay: membasuh Dutch flag Dutch: (zich) wassen Norwegian flag Norwegian: vaske (seg)
Polish flag Polish: myć, prać Portuguese flag Portuguese: lavar(-se) Romanian flag Romanian: a (se) spăla
Russian flag Russian: мыть(ся) Slovak flag Slovak: umývať (sa) Slovenian flag Slovenian: umiti (se)
Serbian flag Serbian: prati Swedish flag Swedish: tvätta, diska Thai flag Thai: ซัก; ล้าง; ซักล้าง; ชะล้า
Turkish flag Turkish: yıkamak Taiwanese flag Taiwanese:  Ukrainian flag Ukrainian: мити(ся)
Urdu flag Urdu: دھونا Vietnamese flag Vietnamese: rửa; giặt Chinese flag Chinese: 

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