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