wash

noun

1
the work of cleansing (usually with soap and water)
2
any enterprise in which losses and gains cancel out
at the end of the year the accounting department showed that it was a wash
3
garments or white goods that can be cleaned by laundering
4
a watercolor made by applying a series of monochrome washes one over the other
5
a thin coat of water-base paint
6
the dry bed of an intermittent stream (as at the bottom of a canyon)
7
the flow of air that is driven backwards by an aircraft propeller
8
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

1
to cleanse (itself or another animal) by licking
The cat washes several times a day
2
cleanse (one's body) with soap and water
3
wash or flow against
the waves laved the shore
4
make moist
The dew moistened the meadows

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