wash

clean with some chemical process

cleanse (one''s body) with soap and water

cleanse with a cleaning agent, such as soap, and water

• “Wash the towels, please!”

move by or as if by water

• “The swollen river washed away the footbridge”

be capable of being washed

• “Does this material wash?”

admit to testing or proof

• “This silly excuse won”

separate dirt or gravel from (precious minerals)

apply a thin coating of paint, metal, etc., to

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”

form by erosion

• “The river washed a ravine into the mountainside”

make moist

• “The dew moistened the meadows”

wash or flow against

• “the waves laved the shore”

to cleanse (itself or another animal) by licking

• “The cat washes several times a day”

a thin coat of water-base paint

the work of cleansing (usually with soap and water)

the dry bed of an intermittent stream (as at the bottom of a canyon)

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”

the flow of air that is driven backwards by an aircraft propeller

a watercolor made by applying a series of monochrome washes one over the other

garments or white goods that can be cleaned by laundering

any enterprise in which losses and gains cancel out

• “at the end of the year the accounting department showed that it was a wash”