wash
What is the Definition of wash?
Noun:
- 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)
- 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
Verb:
- clean with some chemical process
- cleanse (one's body)
- cleanse with a cleaning agent, such as soap, and water
- move by or as if by water
- be capable of being washed
- admit to testing or proof
- 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
- form by erosion
- make moist
- wash or flow against
- to cleanse (itself or another animal)
How can I use wash in a sentence?
It filled the whole damp hut with flickering light and Harry felt the warmth wash over him as though he would sunk into a hot bath.
Aunt Petunia had decided it must have shrunk in the wash and, to his great relief, Harry was not punished.
Make sure to wash your hands thoroughly before eating. - Обязательно тщательно мойте руки перед едой.
Wash your hands before eating. - Вымой руки перед едой.
Other meanings of wash (synonyms, cognates).
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| washable |
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| washbasin |
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| washboard |
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| washbowl |
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| washcloth |
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| washed |
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| washer |
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| washerwoman |
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| washing |
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| washington |
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| washingtonian |
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| washout |
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| washroom |
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| washstand |
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| washtub |
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| washy |
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