Word Finder - wash

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The process or an instance of washing or being washed by water or other liquid.

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I'm going to have a quick wash before coming to bed.

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A liquid used for washing.

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A lotion or other liquid with medicinal or hygienic properties.

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hand wash

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The quantity of clothes washed at a time.

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There's a lot in that wash: maybe you should split it into two piles.

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A smooth and translucent painting created using a paintbrush holding a large amount of solvent and a small amount of paint.

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The sound of breaking of the seas, e.g., on the shore.

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I could hear the wash of the wave.

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The wake of a moving ship.

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Sail away from the wash to avoid rocking the boat.

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The turbulence left in the air by a moving airplane.

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Ground washed away to the sea or a river.

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A piece of ground washed by the action of water, or sometimes covered and sometimes left dry; the shallowest part of a river, or arm of the sea; also, a bog; a marsh.

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A shallow body of water.

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In arid and semi-arid regions, the normally dry bed of an intermittent or ephemeral stream; an arroyo or wadi.

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A situation in which losses and gains or advantages and disadvantages are equivalent; a situation in which there is no net change.

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A fictitious kind of sale of stock or other securities between parties of one interest, or by a broker who is both buyer and seller, and who minds his own interest rather than that of his clients.

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Waste liquid, the refuse of food, the collection from washed dishes, etc., from a kitchen, often used as food for pigs; pigwash.

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In distilling, the fermented wort before the spirit is extracted.

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A mixture of dunder, molasses, water, and scummings, used in the West Indies for distillation.

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A thin coat of paint or metal laid on anything for beauty or preservation.

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The blade of an oar.

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The backward current or disturbed water caused by the action of oars, or of a steamer's screw or paddles, etc.

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Ten strikes, or bushels, of oysters.

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The upper surface of a member or material when given a slope to shed water; hence, a structure or receptacle shaped so as to receive and carry off water.

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a carriage wash in a stable

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A lighting effect that fills a scene with a chosen colour.

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(stagecraft) A lighting fixture that can cast a wide beam of light to evenly fill an area with light, as opposed to a spotlight.

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To clean with water.

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Dishwashers wash dishes much more efficiently than most humans.

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To move or erode by the force of water in motion.

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Heavy rains wash a road or an embankment.

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To separate valuable material (such as gold) from worthless material by the action of flowing water.

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To clean oneself with water.

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I wash every morning after getting up.

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To cover with water or any liquid; to wet; to fall on and moisten.

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Waves wash the shore.

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To move with a lapping or swashing sound; to lap or splash.

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to hear the water washing

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To be eroded or carried away by the action of water.

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To be cogent, convincing; to withstand critique.

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To bear without injury the operation of being washed.

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Some calicoes do not wash.

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To be wasted or worn away by the action of water, as by a running or overflowing stream, or by the dashing of the sea; said of road, a beach, etc.

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To cover with a thin or watery coat of colour; to tint lightly and thinly.

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To overlay with a thin coat of metal.

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steel washed with silver

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To cause dephosphorization of (molten pig iron) by adding substances containing iron oxide, and sometimes manganese oxide.

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To pass (a gas or gaseous mixture) through or over a liquid for the purpose of purifying it, especially by removing soluble constituents.

Now go wash up for supper.

You need to wash that off.

Give me one of those polo shirts and I'll go wash up.

I was so looking forward to a nice bath to wash away the stink of that awful hole.

You'd better go wash up and tell your Dad supper is ready.

Han watched, handing her a wet wash cloth when she was done.

He sat up in bed admiring them, allowing all the emotion he originally felt to wash over him.

If the acid has been swallowed, wash out the stomach and give chalk, the carbolate of calcium being insoluble.

After supper Lisa helped put away the leftovers and wash dishes.

It was in the first wash of light outside that suit-two-blue-gun got a good look at Dean's face.

She should wash them, but there wasn't time.

Great. Now how do you say go wash up for supper?

Since your castle was attacked, we.ve had an Ancient wash up on our shores, Death.s assassin sitting in our hall, and now this.

I'm going to go wash up.

The bay's ears were perked toward the wash below them.

Generally it is either dried, after being separated from the wash water, by means of common salt, upon a layer of which the moist nitroglycerin is gently run and allowed to drain or filter through, or it is filtered through a mass of dry sponge or similar dry and porous material.

She swished it around in her mouth to wash out the sand and then spit.

Scraping the left-overs into a bowl, she ran water to wash the dishes.

These wash back and forth in shallow water on a sandy bottom, and are sometimes cast on the shore.

I don't even have to wash them.

She paused, shoving the straps of her dress up, and then gathered the remaining pans, stacking them beside the sink to wash after supper.

A student in a gray wig and exaggerated backside was at the sink, pretending to wash dishes.

She put the last of the dishes in the dishwasher and ran water in the sink to wash the iron skillet and wooden handled spatula.

She'd seen Brady thrown from it and no bodies wash up on shore.

Wash the sting area and apply a cold compress.

The substance does not wash off in the rain.

I spent so much time on the phone talking to the Calvias she wouldn't have gotten through, Cynthia said the next morning, after breakfast was cleared, the wash loaded, and domestic matters reasonably settled—a momentary break.

She glimpsed the mess that was her face and decided to wash it and redo her makeup.

Frederick found suitable clothing for his guests and in turn, they each retired to the one bedchamber of the cottage to wash and change.

The so-called Whittlesey Wash, in the neighbourhood of the town, is among several tracts in the fens which are perennially flooded.

The treatment is to wash out the stomach or give such an emetic as apomorphine, and, when the stomach has been emptied, to administer demulcents such as white of egg or mucilage.

In the stomach we aid the vomiting by which microbes or the products of decomposition of food are usually eliminated by giving to the patient repeated draughts of hot water so as to wash the stomach clean.

Or I've been forced to boil the kettle to wash up.

This cot is part of a brand new range in a contrasting magnolia and white wash finish.

Why should I use a mitt to wash my car?

There is a low level WC, a pedestal wash hand basin and a single paneled radiator.

Wrap your baby in a towel, and gently wash her with a little baby wash and warm water.

Mats are also the easiest style to machine wash.

The school of thought used to be that you had to select a semi-gloss or high gloss paint for your kitchen, so you could wash your walls without damaging the paint.

Jimmy Jimmy Coco Burst is a body wash meant to be used with sunless tans.

Wash your burger down with a shake; flavors include vanilla bean, dark chocolate, mango, pistachio, coffee, black and white, coconut, and cola.

Although two periscopes are provided when attacking, one only would be shown for short periods to get check observation so as to prevent the wash of the upper tube revealing the proximity of the submarine.

Standard fruit trees must be left to take their chance; and, indeed from the lateness of their flowering, they are generally more injured by blight, and by drenching rains, which wash away the pollen of the flowers, than by the direct effects of cold.

It is also advisable to wash all woodwork and gangways annually with a weak solution of formalin, or other inodorous germicide.

Copying-ink pencils should not be used, as water will wash away the writing.

Wash trees infested with insects with one of the many insecticides now obtainable.

Quicker or slower, the water that fills it will wash in sand and mud, and year by year this process will go on till ultimately the whole reservoir is filled up. The embankment is raised, and raised again, but at last it is better to abandon it and make a new tank elsewhere, for it would never pay to dig out the silt by manual labour.

At Durham Cathedral, until the 16th century, every charity-boy had a monk to wash his feet.

The method once exclusively used consists in mixing the raw materials with a large quantity of water in a wash mill, a machine having radial horizontal arms driven from a central vertical spindle and carrying harrows which stir up and intermix any soft material placed in the pit in which the apparatus revolves.

According to present practice the raw materials are mixed in a wash mill with so much water that the resulting slurry contains 40 to 50% of water.