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  • Definition
    • wash :cleanse with a cleaning agent, such as soap, and water
      • Wash the towels, please!

    • wash :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

    • wash :move by or as if by water
      • The swollen river washed away the footbridge

    • wash :be capable of being washed
      • Does this material wash?

    • wash :admit to testing or proof
      • This silly excuse won't wash in traffic court

    • wash :any enterprise in which losses and gains cancel out
      • at the end of the year the accounting department showed that it was a wash

    • wash :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

    • wash :form by erosion
      • The river washed a ravine into the mountainside

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