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English to English adjective
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Washy; weak. |  | source: webster1913 noun
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a thin coat of water-base paint | | source: wordnet30
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the work of cleansing (usually with soap and water) | | source: wordnet30
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the dry bed of an intermittent stream (as at the bottom of a canyon) | | source: wordnet30
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the erosive process of washing away soil or gravel by water (as from a roadway) | | Example: from the house they watched the washout of their newly seeded lawn by the water
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the flow of air that is driven backwards by an aircraft propeller | | source: wordnet30
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a watercolor made by applying a series of monochrome washes one over the other | | source: wordnet30
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garments or white goods that can be cleaned by laundering | | source: wordnet30
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any enterprise in which losses and gains cancel out | | Example: at the end of the year the accounting department showed that it was a wash
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The act of washing; an ablution; a cleansing, wetting, or dashing with water; hence, a quantity, as of clothes, washed at once. | | source: webster1913
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Gravel and other rock débris transported and deposited by running water; coarse alluvium. | | source: webster1913 verb
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clean with some chemical process | | source: wordnet30
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cleanse (one's body) with soap and water | | source: wordnet30
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cleanse with a cleaning agent, such as soap, and water | | Example: Wash the towels, please!
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move by or as if by water | | Example: The swollen river washed away the footbridge
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be capable of being washed | | Example: Does this material wash?
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admit to testing or proof | | Example: This silly excuse won't wash in traffic court
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separate dirt or gravel from (precious minerals) | | source: wordnet30
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apply a thin coating of paint, metal, etc., to | | source: wordnet30
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remove by the application of water or other liquid and soap or some other cleaning agent | | Example: 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
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form by erosion | | Example: The river washed a ravine into the mountainside
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make moist | | Example: The dew moistened the meadows
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wash or flow against | | Example: the waves laved the shore
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to cleanse (itself or another animal) by licking | | Example: The cat washes several times a day
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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 wash sheep or wool; to wash the pavement or floor; to wash the bark of trees. | | source: webster1913
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To perform the act of ablution. | | source: webster1913
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To cause dephosphorisation of (molten pig iron) by adding substances containing iron oxide, and sometimes manganese oxide. | | source: webster1913
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To use washes, as for the face or hair. | | source: webster1913
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