Wash

Verb

 * 1) To clean with water.
 * 2) To move by the force of water in motion (as in the flood washed away houses).
 * 3)  To separate valuable material (such as gold) from worthless material by the action of flowing water.
 * 4) (intransitive) To clean oneself with water.
 * 5) (intransitive) To be eroded or carried away by the action of water.

Derived terms

 * dishwasher
 * jetwash
 * wash away
 * wash down

+ wash off
 * washer
 * wash out
 * wash over
 * wash up

Noun

 * 1) The process or an instance of washing or being washed by water or other liquid.
 * 2) A liquid used for washing.
 * 3) The quantity of clothes washed at a time.
 * 4) The sound of breaking of the seas, e.g., on the shore.
 * 5) The wake of a moving ship.
 * 6) The turbulence left in the air by a moving airplane.
 * 7) A lotion or other liquid with medicinal or hygienic properties.
 * 8) Ground washed away to the sea or a river.
 * 9) A shallow body of water.
 * 10) In arid and semi-arid regions, the normally dry bed of an intermittent or ephemeral stream; an arroyo; wadi
 * 11) * 1997, Stanley Desmond Smith, et al. Physiological Ecology of North American Desert Plants, Nature
 * In some desert-wash systems (which have been termed “xero-riparian”)
 * 1) * 1999, Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, A Natural History of the Sonoran Desert
 * ...though the wash may carry surface water for only a few hours a year.
 * 1) * 2005, Le Hayes, Pilgrims in the Desert: The Early History of the East Mojave Desert
 * Rock Spring Wash continues a short distance then joins Watson Wash. Water from Rock Spring comes out of the boulder strewn wash and disappears into the sand
 * 1) A lack of progress or regress; no change
 * His first week at the new job was a wash, since he spent so much time learning the system instead of using it.

Derived terms

 * come out in the wash
 * car wash
 * mouthwash


 * wash and brushup
 * wash sale
 * whitewash

Adverbs for Wash
surreptitiously; scrupulously; listlessly; fastidiously; habitually; laboriously; deliberately.

Thesaurus
ablution, abstergent, acrylic painting, apply paint, aquarelle, babble, backwash, baptize, bath, bathe, baygall, be consistent, be the case, be true, be truthful, bedaub, bedizen, begild, besmear, bog, bottom, bottomland, bottoms, brew, brush on paint, bubble, buffalo wallow, burble, calcimine, canvas, cathartic, chromogen, cleaner, cleaning agent, cleaning out, cleaning solvent, cleanser, cleansing cream, coat, coat of paint, coating, cold cream, color, color filter, color gelatin, colorant, coloring, complexion, condensation trail, conform to fact, contrail, cover, cream, dab, daub, dead-color, deep-dye, dentifrice, depurant, detergent, dip, distemper, diuretic, double-dye, douche, douching, drench, drier, drouk, dye, dyestuff, easel-picture, elution, elutriation, emblazon, emetic, enamel, encaustic cerography, encaustic painting, enema, engild, everglade, exhaust, exterior paint, face, fast-dye, fen, fenland, finger painting, flat coat, flat wash, float, floor enamel, flower painting, flush, flush out, flushing, flushing out, fresco, fresco painting, gargle, genre painting, gild, glade, glaze, gloss, gouache, grain, grisaille, ground, guggle, gurgle, hog wallow, hold, hold good, hold together, hold true, hold up, hold water, holm, holystone, hue, illuminate, illumination, illustration, imbrue, imbue, impasto, impregnate, infiltrate, infuse, ingrain, inject, interior paint, irrigate, irrigation, japan, lacquer, lap, lapping, lather, lathering, launder, laundering, laundry, lavabo, lavage, lavation, lave, laving, lay on color, leach, lip, lixiviate, lotion, macerate, marais, marish, marsh, marshland, meadow, medium, mere, mire, monochrome, moor, moorland, mop, mop up, mopping, mopping up, morass, moss, mouthwash, mud, mud flat, mural painting, nauseant, oil, oil painting, opaque color, paint, painting, parget, peat bog, percolate, permeate, picturization, pigment, plash, portraiture, poster painting, prime, prime coat, primer, priming, prove out, prove to be, prove true, pumice stone, purgative, purge, purifier, purl, quagmire, quicksand, remain valid, ride, rinse, rinse out, rinsing, ripple, ritually immerse, salt marsh, saturate, scour, scouring, scrub, scrub up, scrubbing, scrubbing up, seethe, shade, shadow, shampoo, shellac, shower, slob land, slop on paint, slosh, slough, sluice, sluice out, smear, soak, soap, soaping, sodden, solvent, sop, sough, souse, splash, sponge, sponging, stain, stand the test, stand up, steep, stick together, stipple, stream, sump, swab, swabbing, swale, swamp, swampland, swash, swish, synthetic detergent, syringe, taiga, tempera, the brush, thinner, tinct, tinction, tincture, tinge, tint, toivel, tone, tooth powder, toothpaste, track, transparent color, trill, tub, tubbing, turpentine, turps, undercoat, undercoating, vapor trail, varnish, vehicle, vortex, wake, wallow, wash coat, wash drawing, wash out, wash up, washday, washing, washing up, washout, washup, water, waterlog, whitewash, wiping up

Etymology
From wæscan: (cognate with Dutch wassen: and German waschen:)

Verb

 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: غسل
 * Armenian: ,
 * Belarusian: мыць, памыць ; праць
 * Bengali:, ধোওয়া
 * Bulgarian: мия
 * Catalan: rentar, llavar
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, , , 沖洗, 冲洗
 * Classical Nahuatl: pāca
 * Crimean Tatar: yuvmaq
 * Croatian: umiti
 * Czech: mýt (dishes), prát (laundry)
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:, ,
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Haitian Creole:
 * Hebrew:, שטף
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:, kimos
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Irish:
 * Italian:


 * Japanese:
 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:
 * Kurmanji: (شووشتن)
 * Sorani: شوشتن
 * Latin:
 * Norwegian: tvette, vaske
 * Old English: þwēan
 * Old High German: dwahan
 * Old Norse: þvó, þvætta
 * Persian:
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Rohingya: dúo
 * Romani: thovel
 * Romanian: a spăla
 * Romansch:
 * Russian:,  , вымыть ;   , постирать
 * Scottish Gaelic: nigh
 * Sicilian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Telugu: కడుగు (kaDugu) non-clothing, ఉతుకు (utuku) clothes
 * Thai: ซัก, ล้าง
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: мити,
 * Urdu:
 * Vietnamese: ,
 * Volapük: lavön


 * Finnish:
 * German: wegspülen


 * Hungarian: elmos


 * Finnish:


 * Armenian:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German: sich waschen
 * Greek: πλένομαι
 * Hungarian: mosakszik, megmosakszik
 * Irish:
 * Italian:


 * Japanese: 洗面する
 * Kurdish:
 * Sorani: خۆ شوشتن
 * Persian: خودشویی
 * Russian: мыться, помыться , вымыться
 * Telugu: కడుక్కొను (kaDukkonu)


 * Finnish:


 * Persian: فرسودن

Noun

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 * Finnish: (aaltojen) kohina


 * Finnish: ,


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 * Finnish: -vesi (e.g. suuvesi)


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 * French: oeud

Anagrams

 * haws
 * shaw, Shaw