wash

Definitions

1. 1transitive verb

   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.

2. 2transitive verb

   To cover with water or any liquid; to wet; to fall on and moisten; hence, to overflow or dash against; as, waves wash the shore.

3. 3transitive verb

   To waste or abrade by the force of water in motion; as, heavy rains wash a road or an embankment.

4. 4transitive verb

   To remove by washing to take away by, or as by, the action of water; to drag or draw off as by the tide; -- often with away, off, out, etc.; as, to wash dirt from the hands.

5. 5transitive verb

   To cover with a thin or watery coat of color; to tint lightly and thinly.

6. 6transitive verb

   To overlay with a thin coat of metal; as, steel washed with silver.

7. 7intransitive verb

   To perform the act of ablution.

8. 8intransitive verb

   To clean anything by rubbing or dipping it in water; to perform the business of cleansing clothes, ore, etc., in water.

9. 9intransitive verb

   To bear without injury the operation of being washed; as, some calicoes do not wash.

10. 10intransitive verb

    To be wasted or worn away by the action of water, as by a running or overflowing stream, or by the dashing of the sea; -- said of road, a beach, etc.

11. 11noun

    The act of washing; an ablution; a cleansing, wetting, or dashing with water; hence, a quantity, as of clothes, washed at once.

12. 12noun

    A piece of ground washed by the action of a sea or river, or sometimes covered and sometimes left dry; the shallowest part of a river, or arm of the sea; also, a bog; a marsh; a fen; as, the washes in Lincolnshire.

13. 13noun

    Substances collected and deposited by the action of water; as, the wash of a sewer, of a river, etc.

14. 14noun

    Waste liquid, the refuse of food, the collection from washed dishes, etc., from a kitchen, often used as food for pigs.

15. 15noun

    The fermented wort before the spirit is extracted.

16. 16noun

    A mixture of dunder, molasses, water, and scummings, used in the West Indies for distillation.

17. 17noun

    That with which anything is washed, or wetted, smeared, tinted, etc., upon the surface.

18. 18noun

    A liquid cosmetic for the complexion.

19. 19noun

    A liquid dentifrice.

20. 20noun

    A liquid preparation for the hair; as, a hair wash.

21. 21noun

    A medical preparation in a liquid form for external application; a lotion.

22. 22noun

    A thin coat of color, esp. water color.

23. 23noun

    A thin coat of metal laid on anything for beauty or preservation.

24. 24noun

    The blade of an oar, or the thin part which enters the water.

25. 25noun

    The backward current or disturbed water caused by the action of oars, or of a steamer's screw or paddles, etc.

26. 26noun

    The flow, swash, or breaking of a body of water, as a wave; also, the sound of it.

27. 27noun

    Ten strikes, or bushels, of oysters.

28. 28adjective

    Washy; weak.

29. 29adjective

    Capable of being washed without injury; washable; as, wash goods.

30. 30noun

    the work of cleansing (usually with soap and water)

    Synonyms

    lavationwashing
31. 31noun

    any enterprise in which losses and gains cancel out

    "at the end of the year the accounting department showed that it was a wash"

32. 32noun

    garments or white goods that can be cleaned by laundering

    Synonyms

    laundrywashing
33. 33noun

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

34. 34noun

    a thin coat of water-base paint

35. 35noun

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

36. 36noun

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

    Synonyms

    airstreambackwashraceslipstream
37. 37noun

    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"

    Synonyms

    washout
38. 38verb

    to cleanse (itself or another animal) by licking

    "The cat washes several times a day"

39. 39verb

    cleanse (one's body) with soap and water

    Synonyms

    lave
40. 40verb

    wash or flow against

    "the waves laved the shore"

    Synonyms

    laplave
41. 41verb

    make moist

    "The dew moistened the meadows"

    Synonyms

    dampenmoisten
42. 42verb

    form by erosion

    "The river washed a ravine into the mountainside"

43. 43verb

    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"

44. 44verb

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

45. 45verb

    clean with some chemical process

    Synonyms

    rinse
46. 46verb

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

    "Wash the towels, please!"

    Synonyms

    launder
47. 47verb

    separate dirt or gravel from (precious minerals)

48. 48verb

    move by or as if by water

    "The swollen river washed away the footbridge"

49. 49verb

    admit to testing or proof

    "This silly excuse won't wash in traffic court"

50. 50verb

    be capable of being washed

    "Does this material wash?"