Wash synonyms
wŏsh, wôsh
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The rotation angle about the longitudinal axis
To dip or pour with or as with a ladle
The definition of an eddy is a contrary movement, particularly one of air or water against a main current.
To clean, polish, or wash by scrubbing vigorously:
A problematic situation resulting from such a disparity:
To be made clean
To cause to shine, as a light.
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To wet thoroughly; drench.
To fall or come as a shower
take-a-bath
To bathe.
take a shower
To bathe
To treat or cover with or as if with soap.
rub the dirt off
To bathe
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To subject to light rubbing or friction, as with a cloth or paper, in order to clean or dry.
To remove or absorb with a sponge or cloth:
To coat is to cover something completely, or to give someone an outer layer of clothing.
Bubble means to make or form into thin balls of liquid or foam, or to make a boiling sound.
The liquid used to wash something.
A mass of splashed water, mud, etc.
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1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter XI:
A small, deep gully or channel of an ephemeral stream. Arroyos usually have relatively flat floors and are flanked by steep sides consisting of unconsolidated sediments. They are usually dry except after heavy rainfall.
To treat with a regimen intended to remove impurities and promote health:
To rub hard in order to clean:
wet wash
Laundry washed and left damp without ironing
Things made of linen, or of cotton, etc., as tablecloths, sheets, shirts, etc.
family wash
Laundry
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soiled clothing
Laundry
clean clothes
Laundry
washed clothing
Laundry
rough-dry wash
Laundry
flat pieces
Laundry
The definition of a swirl is a twist, curl or whirl motion.
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(Sports) A rapid advance of the puck toward the opponent's goal in ice hockey.
A moving disturbance in the level of a body of water; an undulation.
A wavelike motion of the air; electromagnetic radiation
A coastal rise in water level caused by wind.
A continuous movement or circulation:
A sudden, brief burst of energy, speed, activity, etc.
A small ravine, especially one cut by a torrent.
A deep, narrow valley with steep rocky sides, often with a stream flowing through it. Gorges are smaller and narrower than canyons and are often a part of a canyon.
A long, deep hollow in the earth's surface, esp. one worn by the action of a stream; large gully or small gorge
An elongated lowland between ranges of mountains, hills, or other uplands, often having a river or stream running along the bottom.
The definition of a swab is a yarn mop, a piece of material used for cleaning or removing matter from the body.
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To plunge, drop, or dip into or as if into a liquid, esp. so as to cover completely
To plunge into water or other liquid and come out quickly.
A carbohydrate that is the chief form of stored energy in plants, especially wheat, corn, rice, and potatoes. Starch is a mixture of two different polysaccharides built out of glucose units, and forms a white, tasteless powder when purified. It is an important source of nutrition and is also used to make adhesives, paper, and textiles.
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put in a washing machine
To launder
To change from a liquid to a vapor by the application of heat:
take the grit out of
To launder
send to the laundry
To launder
rinse out
To launder
sozzle
To heap up in confusion.
Drench is defined as to soak, or to make an animal swallow a liquid medicine.
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Paint is defined as to cover with paint, to create a picture with paint, or to create an imaginary, colorful picture.
To paint over with a lime and water mixture so as to brighten up a wall or fence.
(Intransitive) To apply colors to the areas within the boundaries of a line drawing using colored markers or crayons.
The definition of dye is to turn something a different color.
To give a tint to or take on a tint.
To color slightly; give a tint to
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(Archaeology) To modify (a flaked stone tool) by secondary flaking along the cutting edge.
To apply paint to (a surface) with hasty or crude strokes.
To be removable:
To diminish or impair in quality, character, or value:
flow along
To border upon
To physically affect in specific ways implied by context. [from 15th c.]
(Informal) To grasp and hand over to another:
To put much or too much water, fuel, etc. on or in
To attack:
run along the edge of
To border upon
be plausible
*To be convincing
be reasonable
*To be convincing
be acceptable
*To be convincing
*To be convincing
endure examination
*To be convincing
dirty (antonym)
To make or become dirty; soil; tarnish; stain
liquid (related)
(Physics) A substance that is flowing, and keeping no shape, such as water; a substance of which the molecules, while not tending to separate from one another like those of a gas, readily change their relative position, and which therefore retains no definite shape, except that determined by the containing receptacle; an inelastic fluid.
convince (related)
To persuade to do something
To bathe
absterge
To purge
A city of southwest England southeast of Bristol. It is famous for its Georgian architecture and its hot mineral springs, tapped by the Romans in the first century ad .
To be carried along by currents of air or water:
To remove (adsorbed material) by use of a solvent
To put into the water; launch:
To treat (the skin, for example) by fomentation.
To wash against something with soft liquid sounds.
To wash (clothes, for example).
To bathe
To cover or treat with a lotion.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster's Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
Purify means to make something clean or free from impurities.
(Intransitive) To wash one's own hair with shampoo.
To splash about
To urinate accidentally in or on.
Sediment deposited by flowing water, as in a riverbed, flood plain, or delta.
Sediment suspended in stagnant water or carried by moving water, that often accumulates on the bottom of rivers, bays, etc., esp. such sediment with particles smaller than sand and larger than clay
To deaden, restrain, or depress:
To make or become moist.
To touch with the lips
To utter with a gurgling sound
(Intransitive) To dash or flow noisily; to splash.
To demonstrate the feasibility of.
hold-water
ring-true
dry (related)
To remove the moisture from; make dry:
move (related)
To be disposed of by sale:
true (related)
In a true manner; truly, truthfully, accurately, etc.
lavation
The act of washing; esp., lavage
garments or white goods that can be cleaned by laundering
A drawing done with brush on paper in monochrome using many washes of transparent watercolor or of India ink, shading from light to dark
dry wash
A dry stream bed
The current of air thrust backward by the spinning propeller of an aircraft; propeller wash
An interbreeding, usually geographically isolated population of organisms differing from other populations of the same species in the frequency of hereditary traits. A race that has been given formal taxonomic recognition is known as a subspecies.
(Informal) A backward flow of liquid from the mouth into a bottle or other drinking vessel at the end of a swig.
Erosion of a relatively soft surface, such as a roadbed, by a sudden gush of water, as from a downpour or floods.
(By extension) To eliminate, in a figurative sense.
washday
Washday is the day each week when clothes are washed and dried in a household.
wash-down (related)
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mop (related)
scrape (related)
well-washed (related)
An upward displacement of soil, rocks, etc., usually caused by frost or moisture
The definition of a canyon is a deep ravine or gorge that typically exists between two cliffs.
A layer of a substance spread over a surface for protection or decoration; a covering layer.
finished laundry
Laundry
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