Main entry: wash, washing, lavation
Definition: the work of cleansing (usually with soap and water)
Main entry: wash
Definition: any enterprise in which losses and gains cancel out
Usage: at the end of the year the accounting department showed that it was a wash
Main entry: laundry, wash, washables, washing
Definition: garments or white goods that can be cleaned by laundering
Main entry: wash, wash drawing
Definition: a watercolor made by applying a series of monochrome washes one over the other
Main entry: wash
Definition: a thin coat of water-base paint
Definition: the dry bed of an intermittent stream (as at the bottom of a canyon)
Main entry: airstream, backwash, wash, race, slipstream
Definition: the flow of air that is driven backwards by an aircraft propeller
Definition: the erosive process of washing away soil or gravel by water (as from a roadway)
Usage: from the house they watched the washout of their newly seeded lawn by the water
Main entry: wash
Definition: to cleanse (itself or another animal) by licking
Usage: The cat washes several times a day
Definition: cleanse (one's body) with soap and water
Definition: wash or flow against
Usage: the waves laved the shore
Main entry: wash, dampen, moisten
Definition: make moist
Usage: The dew moistened the meadows
Main entry: wash
Definition: form by erosion
Usage: The river washed a ravine into the mountainside
Main entry: wash, wash away, wash off, wash out
Definition: remove by the application of water or other liquid and soap or some other cleaning agent
Usage: 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
Main entry: wash
Definition: apply a thin coating of paint, metal, etc., to
Definition: clean with some chemical process
Definition: cleanse with a cleaning agent, such as soap, and water
Usage: Wash the towels, please!
Main entry: wash
Definition: separate dirt or gravel from (precious minerals)
Main entry: wash
Definition: move by or as if by water
Usage: The swollen river washed away the footbridge
Main entry: wash
Definition: admit to testing or proof
Usage: This silly excuse won't wash in traffic court
Main entry: wash
Definition: be capable of being washed
Usage: Does this material wash?