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In my mother’s Oklahoma dialect, “wash” was pronounced “warsh,” and I was embarrassed to discover in school that the inclusion of the superfluous “R” sound was considered ignorant. This has made me all the more sensitive now that I live in Washington to the mispronunciation “Warshington.” Some people tell you that after you “warsh” you should “wrench” (“rinse”).

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Definitions

  • n  a thin coat of water-base paint
  • n  the work of cleansing (usually with soap and water)
  • n  the dry bed of an intermittent stream (as at the bottom of a canyon)
  • n  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
  • n  the flow of air that is driven backwards by an aircraft propeller
  • n  a watercolor made by applying a series of monochrome washes one over the other
  • n  garments or white goods that can be cleaned by laundering
  • n  any enterprise in which losses and gains cancel out
    at the end of the year the accounting department showed that it was a wash
  • v  clean with some chemical process
  • v  cleanse (one's body) with soap and water
  • v  cleanse with a cleaning agent, such as soap, and water
  • v  move by or as if by water
    The swollen river washed away the footbridge
  • v  be capable of being washed
    Does this material wash?
  • v  admit to testing or proof
    This silly excuse won't wash in traffic court
  • v  separate dirt or gravel from (precious minerals)
  • v  apply a thin coating of paint, metal, etc., to
  • v  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
  • v  form by erosion
    The river washed a ravine into the mountainside
  • v  make moist
  • v  wash or flow against
  • v  to cleanse (itself or another animal) by licking
    The cat washes several times a day
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