verb
- Clean with some chemical process.
- Cleanse (one's body) with soap and water.
- Cleanse with a cleaning agent, such as soap, and water.
- usage: "Wash the towels, please"
- Move by or as if by water.
- usage: "The swollen river washed away the footbridge"
- synonyms: wash
- Be capable of being washed.
- usage: "Does this material wash"
- synonyms: wash
- Admit to testing or proof.
- usage: "This silly excuse won't wash in traffic court"
- synonyms: wash
- Separate dirt or gravel from (precious minerals.
- synonyms: wash
- Apply a thin coating of paint, metal, etc., to.
- synonyms: wash
- Remove by the application of water or other liquid and soap or some other cleaning agent.
- usage: "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"
- Form by erosion.
- usage: "The river washed a ravine into the mountainside"
- synonyms: wash
- Make moist.
- usage: "The dew moistened the meadows"
- Wash or flow against.
- usage: "the waves laved the shore"
- To cleanse (itself or another animal) by licking.
- usage: "The cat washes several times a day"
- synonyms: wash
adjective
- Clean by virtue of having been washed in water.
- synonyms: water-washed
- Wet as from washing; sometimes used in combination.
- usage: "rain-washed"
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