Meaning & Definition of Wash in English

1. A thin coat of water-base paint

2. The work of cleansing (usually with soap and water)

3. The dry bed of an intermittent stream (as at the bottom of a canyon)

4. The erosive process of washing away soil or gravel by water (as from a roadway)

• "From the house they watched the washout of their newly seeded lawn by the water"

5. The flow of air that is driven backwards by an aircraft propeller

6. A watercolor made by applying a series of monochrome washes one over the other

7. Garments or white goods that can be cleaned by laundering

8. Any enterprise in which losses and gains cancel out

• "At the end of the year the accounting department showed that it was a wash"

1. Clean with some chemical process

2. Cleanse (one's body) with soap and water

3. Cleanse with a cleaning agent, such as soap, and water

• "Wash the towels, please!"

4. Move by or as if by water

• "The swollen river washed away the footbridge"

5. Be capable of being washed

• "Does this material wash?"

6. Admit to testing or proof

• "This silly excuse won't wash in traffic court"

7. Separate dirt or gravel from (precious minerals)

8. Apply a thin coating of paint, metal, etc., to

9. Remove by the application of water or other liquid and soap or some other cleaning agent

• "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"

10. Form by erosion

• "The river washed a ravine into the mountainside"

11. Make moist

• "The dew moistened the meadows"

12. Wash or flow against

• "The waves laved the shore"

13. To cleanse (itself or another animal) by licking

• "The cat washes several times a day"