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wosht

  • 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
  • v  admit to testing or proof
  • 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
  • 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
  • s  clean by virtue of having been washed in water
  • s  wet as from washing; sometimes used in combination
    rain-washed

  • Cloudbursts in Texas last week took at least 20 lives and incidentally washed out enthusiasm for Texas' Senatorial campaign.
  • An oil-covered bird squawks on the seafront in Malpica, northwestern Spain, after oil from the tanker Prestige washed ashore.
  • He washed his nose: the Storm God was born.
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  • Colin Powell in guardian.co.uk
    And I don't care about two washed-up old terrorists that are unrepentant about trying to destroy America. But I do care, and Americans should care, about his relationship with him and whether he's being truthful and candid about it. I think it's a... John McCain http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McCain&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNEhauRSvpu74c5JI21AhXVu-x_kmQ ABC News http://www.google.com/url?q=http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/10/with-dow-below.html&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNHviRzxi978rax01qYyfrSAnvEZnw Oct 9, 2008 109012 142904 washed This Bill Ayers situation that's been going on for weeks became something of a central point of the campaign," Powell said. "But Mr. McCain says that he's a washed-out terrorist. Well, then, why do we keep talking about him?"
  • Frederick Forsyth in Independent
    Forsyth said he came here for "the flavour, the odour, of a pretty washed-up, impoverished, failed west African mangrove swamp". "I thought, what is the most disastrous part of west Africa, and by a mile, it's Guinea-Bissau. If you drive...

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