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noun
- A laundering; a washing.
- That which needs to be, is being, or has been laundered.
- (slang, American football) A penalty flag.
- A place or room where laundering is done - including, by extension, other forms of laundering than clothes washing.
- A business whose primary purpose is to conceal the origins of money received illegally.
- garments or white goods that can be cleaned by laundering
- workplace where clothes are washed and ironed
noun
- The act by which something is washed.
- the act of washing yourself (or another person)
- (informal) Something or somebody that is washed up; a has-been.
- (military, slang) A meeting to gauge the success or failure of an operation or war game.
- (UK politics, slang) The period prior to dissolution of parliament, in which any remaining bills are quickly pushed through or else abandoned.
- the act of washing dishes
noun
- A washing.
- The act or process of soaking or boiling cloth in an alkaline liquid in the operation of bleaching.
- The act of a quadruped kicking both hind legs upward at once.
- The liquid used in this process.
- (forestry) The process of cutting a felled and delimbed tree into logs.
- The process of breaking up or pulverizing ores.
verb
verb
verb
- To remove something by washing.
- To wash the inside of something.
- drain off the color in the course of laundering
- To be removed by washing.
- (idiomatic) To lose traction while going around a turn, especially in cycling, motorsports and skiing/snowboarding.
- (idiomatic) To cancel due to bad weather.
- (idiomatic) To wear away by the flow of water; to erode.
- To fail utterly at something one has attempted.
- remove by the application of water or other liquid and soap or some other cleaning agent
- deplete of strength or vitality
- lose color in the process of being washed
- wash free from unwanted substances, such as dirt
- prevent or interrupt due to rain
- wear or destroy by the force of water
noun
- washing something by allowing it to soak
- the process of becoming softened and saturated as a consequence of being immersed in water (or other liquid)
- (slang, British) A drunkard.
- An immersion in water etc.
- (slang) A carouse; a drinking session.
- (Australia) A low-lying depression that fills with water after rain.
verb
- make drunk (with alcoholic drinks)
- leave as a guarantee in return for money
- submerge in a liquid
- fill, soak, or imbue totally
- cover with liquid; pour liquid onto
- rip off; ask an unreasonable price
- beat severely
- heat a metal prior to working it
- become drunk or drink excessively
- (originally US slang, figurative, transitive) To overcharge or swindle out of a large amount of money.
- (transitive) To immerse in liquid to the point of saturation or thorough permeation.
- (figurative, transitive) To absorb; to drain.
- (transitive) (slang, boxing) To hit or strike.
- (metallurgy, transitive) To heat (a metal) before shaping it.
- (ceramics, transitive) To hold a kiln at a particular temperature for a given period of time.
- (intransitive) To penetrate or permeate by saturation.
- (transitive) To allow (especially a liquid) to be absorbed; to take in, receive. (usually + up)
- (slang, chiefly Mormonism) To engage in penetrative sex without hip thrusting.
- (intransitive) To be saturated with liquid by being immersed in it.
noun
- washing something by allowing it to soak
- the act of making something completely wet
- the process of becoming softened and saturated as a consequence of being immersed in water (or other liquid)
- The practice of inserting a penis into a vagina and remaining stationary, without thrusting, supposedly used by some conservative Christians in lieu of traditional sexual intercourse.
- Immersion in water; a drenching or dunking.
adv
adj
verb
verb
adj
adv
noun
- The act of overflushing.
- The act or process of forcing overflush into a system in order to clear out active fluids.
- Surplus assets.
- A flush (series of obstacles to ski between) that covers a slope
- A displacement fluid that is forced into a system in order to clear out active fluids that are used in a treatment, such as fracking, desalinization, etc.
- An excess of something.
- A flush or tinge of color that appears over the base color.
- A sudden rush of feeling that appears expressed in the face.
verb
noun
- Laundry that has been washed and is ready to be ironed.
- Laundry that has recently been ironed.
- The act of pressing clothes with an iron, such as a steam iron.
- the work of using heat to smooth washed clothes in order to remove any wrinkles
- garments (clothes or linens) that are to be (or have been) ironed
verb
verb
noun
noun
- (countable) The action of the verb to wash
- The liquid used to wash an ore.
- (countable, often in the plural) The residue after an ore, etc, has been washed
- (stock market, finance) A fraudulent transaction in which the same stock is simultaneously bought and sold for the purpose of manipulating the market.
- A place where a precious metal found in gravel is separated from lighter material by washing.
- (uncountable, chiefly British, New Zealand, Australia) Clothing, bedlinen or soft furnishings that have been, are currently being, or are to be washed; laundry.
- (pottery) The covering of a piece with an infusible powder, which prevents it from sticking to its supports, while receiving the glaze.
- A thin covering or coat.
- the work of cleansing (usually with soap and water)
- garments or white goods that can be cleaned by laundering
verb
verb
- (reflexive) To dirty one's clothing by accidentally defecating while clothed.
- (transitive) To make dirty.
- To make invalid, to ruin.
- (intransitive) To become dirty or soiled.
- To enrich with soil or muck; to manure.
- (transitive, figurative) To stain or mar, as with infamy or disgrace; to tarnish; to sully.
- To feed, as cattle or horses, in the barn or an enclosure, with fresh grass or green food cut for them, instead of sending them out to pasture; hence (due to such food having the effect of purging them) to purge by feeding on green food.
- make soiled, filthy, or dirty
noun
- Dung; compost; manure.
- (countable, medicine) A bag containing soiled items.
- (uncountable) A mixture of mineral particles and organic material, used to support plant growth.
- Country or territory.
- (uncountable) The unconsolidated mineral or organic matter on the surface of the earth that has been subjected to and shows effects of genetic and environmental factors of: climate (including water and temperature effects), and macro- and microorganisms, conditioned by relief, acting on parent material over a period of time. A product-soil differs from the material from which it is derived in many physical, chemical, biological, and morphological properties and characteristics.
- (uncountable, euphemistic) Faeces or urine etc. when found on clothes.
- A wet or marshy place in which a boar or other such game seeks refuge when hunted.
- That which soils or pollutes; a stain.
- A marshy or miry place to which a hunted boar resorts for refuge; hence, a wet place, stream, or tract of water, sought for by other game, as deer.
- (uncountable) The unconsolidated mineral or organic material on the immediate surface of the earth that serves as a natural medium for the growth of land plants.
- material in the top layer of the surface of the earth in which plants can grow (especially with reference to its quality or use)
- the part of the earth's surface consisting of humus and disintegrated rock
- anything regarded as making something unclean
- the geographical area under the jurisdiction of a sovereign state
verb
- To remove (something), as if by washing away with water.
- To surround or gently touch (someone or something), as if with water.
- To bathe or wash (someone or something).
- (reflexive) To bathe or wash.
- Chiefly in sexual contexts; followed by at: to lick.
- To surround as if with water.
- Followed by into, on, or upon: to pour (water or some other liquid) with or as if with a ladle into or on someone or something; to lade, to ladle.
- Of a river or other water body: to flow along or past (a place or thing); to wash.
- Chiefly in sexual contexts: to lick (someone or something).
- wash one's face and hands
- cleanse (one's body) with soap and water
- wash or flow against
noun
verb
- be capable of being washed
- (transitive) To clean with water.
- move by or as if by water
- cleanse with a cleaning agent, such as soap, and water
- separate dirt or gravel from (precious minerals)
- to cleanse (itself or another animal) by licking
- remove by the application of water or other liquid and soap or some other cleaning agent
- cleanse (one's body) with soap and water
- wash by removing particles
- admit to testing or proof
- form by erosion
- apply a thin coating of paint, metal, etc., to
- make moist
- wash or flow against
- clean with some chemical process
- (intransitive) To bear without damage the operation of being washed; to be suitable for washing.
- (transitive) To cover with water or any liquid; to wet; to fall on and moisten.
- (transitive) To cause dephosphorization of (molten pig iron) by adding substances containing iron oxide, and sometimes manganese oxide.
- (intransitive) To clean oneself with water.
- (transitive) To cover with a thin or watery coat of colour; to tint lightly and thinly.
- (intransitive) To move with a lapping or swashing sound; to lap or splash.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To be cogent, convincing; to withstand critique.
- (chemistry, transitive) To pass or extract (a gas or gaseous mixture) through or over a liquid for the purpose of purifying it, especially by removing soluble constituents.
- (mining) To separate valuable material (such as gold) from worthless material by the action of flowing water.
- (intransitive) To be eroded or carried away by the action of water.
- (mah-jong) To mix up tiles (before a new game) to make them random; to shuffle.
- (transitive) To carry away or erode by the force of water in motion.
- (transitive) To overlay with a thin coat of metal.
noun
- The process or an instance of washing or being washed by water or other liquid.
- a watercolor made by applying a series of monochrome washes one over the other
- a thin coat of water-base paint
- the work of cleansing (usually with soap and water)
- the erosive process of washing away soil or gravel by water (as from a roadway)
- the dry bed of an intermittent stream (as at the bottom of a canyon)
- garments or white goods that can be cleaned by laundering
- any enterprise in which losses and gains cancel out
- the flow of air that is driven backwards by an aircraft propeller
- (finance, slang) 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.
- The quantity of clothes washed at a time.
- A thin coat of paint or metal laid on anything for beauty or preservation.
- Ten strikes, or bushels, of oysters.
- 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.
- The turbulence left in the air by a moving airplane.
- A total failure; a washout.
- The backward current or disturbed water caused by the action of oars, or of a steamer's screw or paddles, etc.
- (stagecraft) A lighting fixture that can cast a wide beam of light to evenly fill an area with light, as opposed to a spotlight.
- (nautical) The blade of an oar.
- The bow wave or wake of a moving ship, or the vortex from its screws.
- A shallow body of water.
- Ground washed away to the sea or a river.
- The breaking of waves on the shore; the onwards rush of shallow water towards a beach.
- A mixture of dunder, molasses, water, and scummings, used in the West Indies for distillation.
- A lotion or other liquid with medicinal or hygienic properties.
- In distilling, the fermented wort before the spirit is extracted.
- (television) A lighting effect that fills a scene with a chosen colour.
- Waste liquid, the refuse of food, the collection from washed dishes, etc., from a kitchen, often used as food for pigs; pigwash.
- (idiomatic) A situation in which gains and losses or advantages and disadvantages are equivalent, or in which there is no net change.
- A liquid used for washing.
- (architecture) 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.
- (art) A smooth and translucent painting created using a paintbrush holding a large amount of solvent and a small amount of paint.
- In arid and semi-arid regions, the normally dry bed of an intermittent or ephemeral stream; an arroyo or wadi.
verb
- (transitive) To wash (something) by flooding with water.
- (transitive) To drink (or, rarely, eat) greedily or to excess.
- (transitive) To move (a liquid or liquid-filled vessel) in a circular motion.
- (transitive) To feed swill to (pigs).
- (intransitive, of a liquid) To move around or over a surface.
- drink large quantities of (liquid, especially alcoholic drink)
- feed pigs
noun
- (informal) Inexpensive beer or alcohol.
- (informal) A large quantity of liquid drunk at one swallow.
- (collective) A mixture of solid and liquid food scraps fed to pigs etc; especially kitchen waste for this purpose.
- (by extension, figurative) Anything disgusting or worthless.
- (by extension) Any disgusting or distasteful liquid.
- (ultimate frisbee) A badly-thrown pass.
- wet feed (especially for pigs) consisting of mostly kitchen waste mixed with water or skimmed or sour milk
noun
verb
- wash off soap or remaining dirt
- rinse one's mouth and throat with mouthwash
- clean with some chemical process
- (transitive) To wash (something) quickly using water and no soap.
- (transitive) To drink and hangout with friends.
- (transitive) To swish (a liquid) around the inside of something.
- (UK, slang) To thoroughly defeat in an argument, fight or other competition.
- (transitive) To remove soap from (something) using water.
noun
- An act of washing or cleaning the inside of something.
- (mining) A place in a mine where ore has been washed away by a flow of water.
- A total failure; a disappointment.
- (aeronautics) The aerodynamic effect of a small twist in the shape of an aircraft wing.
- A sporting fixture or other event that cannot be completed because of rain.
- (British, air force slang) A destroyed aeroplane.
- (also biology) The cleaning of matter from a physiological system using a fluid; also, the fluid used for such cleaning; or the matter cleaned out from the system.
- An appliance designed to wash out the inside of something.
- (originally US, rail transport, road transport) A breach in a railway or road caused by flooding.
- A period between clinical treatments in which any medication delivered as the first treatment is allowed to be eliminated from a person's body before the second treatment begins.
- An unsuccessful person.
- The erosion of a relatively soft surface by a sudden gush of water; also, a channel produced by this action.
- (meteorology) The action whereby falling rainwater cleans particles from the air.
- An overwhelming victory; a landslide.
- (British, originally air force slang) A trainee who drops out of a training programme.
- someone who is unsuccessful
- the erosive process of washing away soil or gravel by water (as from a roadway)
- the channel or break produced by erosion of relatively soft soil by water
adj
noun
- A laundering; a washing.
- That which needs to be, is being, or has been laundered.
- (slang, American football) A penalty flag.
- A place or room where laundering is done - including, by extension, other forms of laundering than clothes washing.
- A business whose primary purpose is to conceal the origins of money received illegally.
- garments or white goods that can be cleaned by laundering
- workplace where clothes are washed and ironed
noun
- The act by which something is washed.
- the act of washing yourself (or another person)
- (informal) Something or somebody that is washed up; a has-been.
- (military, slang) A meeting to gauge the success or failure of an operation or war game.
- (UK politics, slang) The period prior to dissolution of parliament, in which any remaining bills are quickly pushed through or else abandoned.
- the act of washing dishes
noun
- A washing.
- The act or process of soaking or boiling cloth in an alkaline liquid in the operation of bleaching.
- The act of a quadruped kicking both hind legs upward at once.
- The liquid used in this process.
- (forestry) The process of cutting a felled and delimbed tree into logs.
- The process of breaking up or pulverizing ores.
verb
noun
- washing something by allowing it to soak
- the process of becoming softened and saturated as a consequence of being immersed in water (or other liquid)
- (slang, British) A drunkard.
- An immersion in water etc.
- (slang) A carouse; a drinking session.
- (Australia) A low-lying depression that fills with water after rain.
verb
- make drunk (with alcoholic drinks)
- leave as a guarantee in return for money
- submerge in a liquid
- fill, soak, or imbue totally
- cover with liquid; pour liquid onto
- rip off; ask an unreasonable price
- beat severely
- heat a metal prior to working it
- become drunk or drink excessively
- (originally US slang, figurative, transitive) To overcharge or swindle out of a large amount of money.
- (transitive) To immerse in liquid to the point of saturation or thorough permeation.
- (figurative, transitive) To absorb; to drain.
- (transitive) (slang, boxing) To hit or strike.
- (metallurgy, transitive) To heat (a metal) before shaping it.
- (ceramics, transitive) To hold a kiln at a particular temperature for a given period of time.
- (intransitive) To penetrate or permeate by saturation.
- (transitive) To allow (especially a liquid) to be absorbed; to take in, receive. (usually + up)
- (slang, chiefly Mormonism) To engage in penetrative sex without hip thrusting.
- (intransitive) To be saturated with liquid by being immersed in it.
noun
- washing something by allowing it to soak
- the act of making something completely wet
- the process of becoming softened and saturated as a consequence of being immersed in water (or other liquid)
- The practice of inserting a penis into a vagina and remaining stationary, without thrusting, supposedly used by some conservative Christians in lieu of traditional sexual intercourse.
- Immersion in water; a drenching or dunking.
adv
adj
verb
noun
- Laundry that has been washed and is ready to be ironed.
- Laundry that has recently been ironed.
- The act of pressing clothes with an iron, such as a steam iron.
- the work of using heat to smooth washed clothes in order to remove any wrinkles
- garments (clothes or linens) that are to be (or have been) ironed
verb
noun
- (countable) The action of the verb to wash
- The liquid used to wash an ore.
- (countable, often in the plural) The residue after an ore, etc, has been washed
- (stock market, finance) A fraudulent transaction in which the same stock is simultaneously bought and sold for the purpose of manipulating the market.
- A place where a precious metal found in gravel is separated from lighter material by washing.
- (uncountable, chiefly British, New Zealand, Australia) Clothing, bedlinen or soft furnishings that have been, are currently being, or are to be washed; laundry.
- (pottery) The covering of a piece with an infusible powder, which prevents it from sticking to its supports, while receiving the glaze.
- A thin covering or coat.
- the work of cleansing (usually with soap and water)
- garments or white goods that can be cleaned by laundering
verb
noun
verb
- wash off soap or remaining dirt
- rinse one's mouth and throat with mouthwash
- clean with some chemical process
- (transitive) To wash (something) quickly using water and no soap.
- (transitive) To drink and hangout with friends.
- (transitive) To swish (a liquid) around the inside of something.
- (UK, slang) To thoroughly defeat in an argument, fight or other competition.
- (transitive) To remove soap from (something) using water.
noun
- An act of washing or cleaning the inside of something.
- (mining) A place in a mine where ore has been washed away by a flow of water.
- A total failure; a disappointment.
- (aeronautics) The aerodynamic effect of a small twist in the shape of an aircraft wing.
- A sporting fixture or other event that cannot be completed because of rain.
- (British, air force slang) A destroyed aeroplane.
- (also biology) The cleaning of matter from a physiological system using a fluid; also, the fluid used for such cleaning; or the matter cleaned out from the system.
- An appliance designed to wash out the inside of something.
- (originally US, rail transport, road transport) A breach in a railway or road caused by flooding.
- A period between clinical treatments in which any medication delivered as the first treatment is allowed to be eliminated from a person's body before the second treatment begins.
- An unsuccessful person.
- The erosion of a relatively soft surface by a sudden gush of water; also, a channel produced by this action.
- (meteorology) The action whereby falling rainwater cleans particles from the air.
- An overwhelming victory; a landslide.
- (British, originally air force slang) A trainee who drops out of a training programme.
- someone who is unsuccessful
- the erosive process of washing away soil or gravel by water (as from a roadway)
- the channel or break produced by erosion of relatively soft soil by water
verb
- be capable of being washed
- (transitive) To clean with water.
- move by or as if by water
- cleanse with a cleaning agent, such as soap, and water
- separate dirt or gravel from (precious minerals)
- to cleanse (itself or another animal) by licking
- remove by the application of water or other liquid and soap or some other cleaning agent
- cleanse (one's body) with soap and water
- wash by removing particles
- admit to testing or proof
- form by erosion
- apply a thin coating of paint, metal, etc., to
- make moist
- wash or flow against
- clean with some chemical process
- (intransitive) To bear without damage the operation of being washed; to be suitable for washing.
- (transitive) To cover with water or any liquid; to wet; to fall on and moisten.
- (transitive) To cause dephosphorization of (molten pig iron) by adding substances containing iron oxide, and sometimes manganese oxide.
- (intransitive) To clean oneself with water.
- (transitive) To cover with a thin or watery coat of colour; to tint lightly and thinly.
- (intransitive) To move with a lapping or swashing sound; to lap or splash.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To be cogent, convincing; to withstand critique.
- (chemistry, transitive) To pass or extract (a gas or gaseous mixture) through or over a liquid for the purpose of purifying it, especially by removing soluble constituents.
- (mining) To separate valuable material (such as gold) from worthless material by the action of flowing water.
- (intransitive) To be eroded or carried away by the action of water.
- (mah-jong) To mix up tiles (before a new game) to make them random; to shuffle.
- (transitive) To carry away or erode by the force of water in motion.
- (transitive) To overlay with a thin coat of metal.
noun
- The process or an instance of washing or being washed by water or other liquid.
- a watercolor made by applying a series of monochrome washes one over the other
- a thin coat of water-base paint
- the work of cleansing (usually with soap and water)
- the erosive process of washing away soil or gravel by water (as from a roadway)
- the dry bed of an intermittent stream (as at the bottom of a canyon)
- garments or white goods that can be cleaned by laundering
- any enterprise in which losses and gains cancel out
- the flow of air that is driven backwards by an aircraft propeller
- (finance, slang) 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.
- The quantity of clothes washed at a time.
- A thin coat of paint or metal laid on anything for beauty or preservation.
- Ten strikes, or bushels, of oysters.
- 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.
- The turbulence left in the air by a moving airplane.
- A total failure; a washout.
- The backward current or disturbed water caused by the action of oars, or of a steamer's screw or paddles, etc.
- (stagecraft) A lighting fixture that can cast a wide beam of light to evenly fill an area with light, as opposed to a spotlight.
- (nautical) The blade of an oar.
- The bow wave or wake of a moving ship, or the vortex from its screws.
- A shallow body of water.
- Ground washed away to the sea or a river.
- The breaking of waves on the shore; the onwards rush of shallow water towards a beach.
- A mixture of dunder, molasses, water, and scummings, used in the West Indies for distillation.
- A lotion or other liquid with medicinal or hygienic properties.
- In distilling, the fermented wort before the spirit is extracted.
- (television) A lighting effect that fills a scene with a chosen colour.
- Waste liquid, the refuse of food, the collection from washed dishes, etc., from a kitchen, often used as food for pigs; pigwash.
- (idiomatic) A situation in which gains and losses or advantages and disadvantages are equivalent, or in which there is no net change.
- A liquid used for washing.
- (architecture) 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.
- (art) A smooth and translucent painting created using a paintbrush holding a large amount of solvent and a small amount of paint.
- In arid and semi-arid regions, the normally dry bed of an intermittent or ephemeral stream; an arroyo or wadi.
verb
verb
- To remove something by washing.
- To wash the inside of something.
- drain off the color in the course of laundering
- To be removed by washing.
- (idiomatic) To lose traction while going around a turn, especially in cycling, motorsports and skiing/snowboarding.
- (idiomatic) To cancel due to bad weather.
- (idiomatic) To wear away by the flow of water; to erode.
- To fail utterly at something one has attempted.
- remove by the application of water or other liquid and soap or some other cleaning agent
- deplete of strength or vitality
- lose color in the process of being washed
- wash free from unwanted substances, such as dirt
- prevent or interrupt due to rain
- wear or destroy by the force of water
verb
adj
adv
noun
- The act of overflushing.
- The act or process of forcing overflush into a system in order to clear out active fluids.
- Surplus assets.
- A flush (series of obstacles to ski between) that covers a slope
- A displacement fluid that is forced into a system in order to clear out active fluids that are used in a treatment, such as fracking, desalinization, etc.
- An excess of something.
- A flush or tinge of color that appears over the base color.
- A sudden rush of feeling that appears expressed in the face.
verb
verb
noun
verb
- (reflexive) To dirty one's clothing by accidentally defecating while clothed.
- (transitive) To make dirty.
- To make invalid, to ruin.
- (intransitive) To become dirty or soiled.
- To enrich with soil or muck; to manure.
- (transitive, figurative) To stain or mar, as with infamy or disgrace; to tarnish; to sully.
- To feed, as cattle or horses, in the barn or an enclosure, with fresh grass or green food cut for them, instead of sending them out to pasture; hence (due to such food having the effect of purging them) to purge by feeding on green food.
- make soiled, filthy, or dirty
noun
- Dung; compost; manure.
- (countable, medicine) A bag containing soiled items.
- (uncountable) A mixture of mineral particles and organic material, used to support plant growth.
- Country or territory.
- (uncountable) The unconsolidated mineral or organic matter on the surface of the earth that has been subjected to and shows effects of genetic and environmental factors of: climate (including water and temperature effects), and macro- and microorganisms, conditioned by relief, acting on parent material over a period of time. A product-soil differs from the material from which it is derived in many physical, chemical, biological, and morphological properties and characteristics.
- (uncountable, euphemistic) Faeces or urine etc. when found on clothes.
- A wet or marshy place in which a boar or other such game seeks refuge when hunted.
- That which soils or pollutes; a stain.
- A marshy or miry place to which a hunted boar resorts for refuge; hence, a wet place, stream, or tract of water, sought for by other game, as deer.
- (uncountable) The unconsolidated mineral or organic material on the immediate surface of the earth that serves as a natural medium for the growth of land plants.
- material in the top layer of the surface of the earth in which plants can grow (especially with reference to its quality or use)
- the part of the earth's surface consisting of humus and disintegrated rock
- anything regarded as making something unclean
- the geographical area under the jurisdiction of a sovereign state
verb
- To remove (something), as if by washing away with water.
- To surround or gently touch (someone or something), as if with water.
- To bathe or wash (someone or something).
- (reflexive) To bathe or wash.
- Chiefly in sexual contexts; followed by at: to lick.
- To surround as if with water.
- Followed by into, on, or upon: to pour (water or some other liquid) with or as if with a ladle into or on someone or something; to lade, to ladle.
- Of a river or other water body: to flow along or past (a place or thing); to wash.
- Chiefly in sexual contexts: to lick (someone or something).
- wash one's face and hands
- cleanse (one's body) with soap and water
- wash or flow against
noun
verb
- be capable of being washed
- (transitive) To clean with water.
- move by or as if by water
- cleanse with a cleaning agent, such as soap, and water
- separate dirt or gravel from (precious minerals)
- to cleanse (itself or another animal) by licking
- remove by the application of water or other liquid and soap or some other cleaning agent
- cleanse (one's body) with soap and water
- wash by removing particles
- admit to testing or proof
- form by erosion
- apply a thin coating of paint, metal, etc., to
- make moist
- wash or flow against
- clean with some chemical process
- (intransitive) To bear without damage the operation of being washed; to be suitable for washing.
- (transitive) To cover with water or any liquid; to wet; to fall on and moisten.
- (transitive) To cause dephosphorization of (molten pig iron) by adding substances containing iron oxide, and sometimes manganese oxide.
- (intransitive) To clean oneself with water.
- (transitive) To cover with a thin or watery coat of colour; to tint lightly and thinly.
- (intransitive) To move with a lapping or swashing sound; to lap or splash.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To be cogent, convincing; to withstand critique.
- (chemistry, transitive) To pass or extract (a gas or gaseous mixture) through or over a liquid for the purpose of purifying it, especially by removing soluble constituents.
- (mining) To separate valuable material (such as gold) from worthless material by the action of flowing water.
- (intransitive) To be eroded or carried away by the action of water.
- (mah-jong) To mix up tiles (before a new game) to make them random; to shuffle.
- (transitive) To carry away or erode by the force of water in motion.
- (transitive) To overlay with a thin coat of metal.
noun
- The process or an instance of washing or being washed by water or other liquid.
- a watercolor made by applying a series of monochrome washes one over the other
- a thin coat of water-base paint
- the work of cleansing (usually with soap and water)
- the erosive process of washing away soil or gravel by water (as from a roadway)
- the dry bed of an intermittent stream (as at the bottom of a canyon)
- garments or white goods that can be cleaned by laundering
- any enterprise in which losses and gains cancel out
- the flow of air that is driven backwards by an aircraft propeller
- (finance, slang) 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.
- The quantity of clothes washed at a time.
- A thin coat of paint or metal laid on anything for beauty or preservation.
- Ten strikes, or bushels, of oysters.
- 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.
- The turbulence left in the air by a moving airplane.
- A total failure; a washout.
- The backward current or disturbed water caused by the action of oars, or of a steamer's screw or paddles, etc.
- (stagecraft) A lighting fixture that can cast a wide beam of light to evenly fill an area with light, as opposed to a spotlight.
- (nautical) The blade of an oar.
- The bow wave or wake of a moving ship, or the vortex from its screws.
- A shallow body of water.
- Ground washed away to the sea or a river.
- The breaking of waves on the shore; the onwards rush of shallow water towards a beach.
- A mixture of dunder, molasses, water, and scummings, used in the West Indies for distillation.
- A lotion or other liquid with medicinal or hygienic properties.
- In distilling, the fermented wort before the spirit is extracted.
- (television) A lighting effect that fills a scene with a chosen colour.
- Waste liquid, the refuse of food, the collection from washed dishes, etc., from a kitchen, often used as food for pigs; pigwash.
- (idiomatic) A situation in which gains and losses or advantages and disadvantages are equivalent, or in which there is no net change.
- A liquid used for washing.
- (architecture) 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.
- (art) A smooth and translucent painting created using a paintbrush holding a large amount of solvent and a small amount of paint.
- In arid and semi-arid regions, the normally dry bed of an intermittent or ephemeral stream; an arroyo or wadi.
verb
- (transitive) To wash (something) by flooding with water.
- (transitive) To drink (or, rarely, eat) greedily or to excess.
- (transitive) To move (a liquid or liquid-filled vessel) in a circular motion.
- (transitive) To feed swill to (pigs).
- (intransitive, of a liquid) To move around or over a surface.
- drink large quantities of (liquid, especially alcoholic drink)
- feed pigs
noun
- (informal) Inexpensive beer or alcohol.
- (informal) A large quantity of liquid drunk at one swallow.
- (collective) A mixture of solid and liquid food scraps fed to pigs etc; especially kitchen waste for this purpose.
- (by extension, figurative) Anything disgusting or worthless.
- (by extension) Any disgusting or distasteful liquid.
- (ultimate frisbee) A badly-thrown pass.
- wet feed (especially for pigs) consisting of mostly kitchen waste mixed with water or skimmed or sour milk
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