wash
wash is a 4-letter English word with 50 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, noun, adjective, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- transitive 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.
- transitive 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.
- transitive verb. To waste or abrade by the force of water in motion; as, heavy rains wash a road or an embankment.
- transitive 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.
- transitive verb. To cover with a thin or watery coat of color; to tint lightly and thinly.
- transitive verb. To overlay with a thin coat of metal; as, steel washed with silver.
- intransitive verb. To perform the act of ablution.
- intransitive verb. To clean anything by rubbing or dipping it in water; to perform the business of cleansing clothes, ore, etc., in water.
- intransitive verb. To bear without injury the operation of being washed; as, some calicoes do not wash.
- intransitive 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.
- noun. The act of washing; an ablution; a cleansing, wetting, or dashing with water; hence, a quantity, as of clothes, washed at once.
- noun. 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.
- noun. Substances collected and deposited by the action of water; as, the wash of a sewer, of a river, etc.
- noun. Waste liquid, the refuse of food, the collection from washed dishes, etc., from a kitchen, often used as food for pigs.
- noun. The fermented wort before the spirit is extracted.
- noun. A mixture of dunder, molasses, water, and scummings, used in the West Indies for distillation.
- noun. That with which anything is washed, or wetted, smeared, tinted, etc., upon the surface.
- noun. A liquid cosmetic for the complexion.
- noun. A liquid dentifrice.
- noun. A liquid preparation for the hair; as, a hair wash.
- noun. A medical preparation in a liquid form for external application; a lotion.
- noun. A thin coat of color, esp. water color.
- noun. A thin coat of metal laid on anything for beauty or preservation.
- noun. The blade of an oar, or the thin part which enters the water.
- noun. The backward current or disturbed water caused by the action of oars, or of a steamer's screw or paddles, etc.
- noun. The flow, swash, or breaking of a body of water, as a wave; also, the sound of it.
- noun. Ten strikes, or bushels, of oysters.
- adjective. Washy; weak.
- adjective. Capable of being washed without injury; washable; as, wash goods.
- noun. the work of cleansing (usually with soap and water)
- noun. any enterprise in which losses and gains cancel out
"at the end of the year the accounting department showed that it was a wash"
- noun. garments or white goods that can be cleaned by laundering
- noun. a watercolor made by applying a series of monochrome washes one over the other
- noun. a thin coat of water-base paint
- noun. the dry bed of an intermittent stream (as at the bottom of a canyon)
- noun. the flow of air that is driven backwards by an aircraft propeller
- noun. 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"
- verb. to cleanse (itself or another animal) by licking
"The cat washes several times a day"
- verb. cleanse (one's body) with soap and water
- verb. wash or flow against
"the waves laved the shore"
- verb. make moist
"The dew moistened the meadows"
- verb. form by erosion
"The river washed a ravine into the mountainside"
- verb. 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"
- verb. apply a thin coating of paint, metal, etc., to
- verb. clean with some chemical process
- verb. cleanse with a cleaning agent, such as soap, and water
"Wash the towels, please!"
- verb. separate dirt or gravel from (precious minerals)
- verb. move by or as if by water
"The swollen river washed away the footbridge"
- verb. admit to testing or proof
"This silly excuse won't wash in traffic court"
- verb. be capable of being washed
"Does this material wash?"
Synonyms
lavation, washing, laundry, washables, airstream, backwash, race, slipstream, washout, lave, lap, dampen, moisten, rinse, launder
Anagrams
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Common word forms
washed, washen, washer, washes, washing, washable
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