Definition: someone who is unsuccessful
Similar words: unsuccessful person, failure, loser, nonstarter
Definition: a person with a record of failing; someone who loses consistently
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
Similar words: soil erosion
Definition: the washing away of soil by the flow of water
Synonyms: washout
Definition: the channel or break produced by erosion of relatively soft soil by water
Usage: it was several days after the storm before they could repair the washout and open the road
Similar words: channel, groove
Definition: a long narrow furrow cut either by a natural process (such as erosion) or by a tool (as e.g. a groove in a phonograph record)