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(verb) to cleanse (itself or another animal) by licking, as of a cat; "The cat washes several times a day" |
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Related Words: clean, cleanse |
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(verb) cleanse (one's body) with soap and water |
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Synonyms: lave |
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Related Words: clean, cleanse, gargle, hush, rinse, scrub, scrub up, shampoo, sponge down |
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(noun) the work of washing or cleansing |
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Synonyms: washing |
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Related Words: ablution, bathing, dishwashing, laundering, rinse, soak, soaking, washing-up, washup, window-washing, work |
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(verb) form by erosion: "The river washed a ravine into the mountainside" |
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Related Words: eat away, erode, fret |
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(verb) remove by the application of water or other liquid and soap or some other cleaning agent: "he washed the dirt from his coat" |
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Synonyms: wash away, wash-off |
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Related Words: remove, take, take away |
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(noun) (informal) any enterprise in which losses and gains cancel out |
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Related Words: business activity, commercial activity |
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(verb) apply a thin coating of paint, metal, etc., to |
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Related Words: cover, whitewash |
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(verb) clean with some chemical process |
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Synonyms: rinse |
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Related Words: elute, launder, wash |
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(verb) cleanse with a cleaning agent, such as soap, and water; "Wash the towels, please!" |
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Synonyms: launder |
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Related Words: acid-wash, clean, cradle, handwash, machine wash, make clean, powerwash, pressure-wash, rinse, rinse off, stonewash, suds, wash, wash out, water-wash |
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(verb) separate dirt or gravel from (precious minerals) |
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Related Words: pan, pan off, pan out, separate |
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(verb) move by or as if by water; "The swollen river washed away the footbridge" |
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Related Words: displace, move |
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(verb) move by or as if by water; "The footbridge washed away during the floods" |
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Related Words: go, locomote, move, travel |
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(verb) be capable of being washed; "Does this material wash?" |
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Related Words: be |
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(noun) a watercolor made by applying a series of monochrome washes one over the other |
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Synonyms: wash drawing |
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Related Words: watercolor |
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(noun) a thin coat of water-base paint |
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Related Words: calcimine, color wash, colour wash, water-base paint, whitewash |
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(noun) (western United States) the dry bed of an intermittent stream (as at the bottom of a canyon) |
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Synonyms: dry wash |
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Related Words: creek bed, streambed |
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(verb) make moist; "The dew moistened the meadows" |
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Synonyms: dampen, moisten |
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Related Words: baste, humidify, moisturize, wet |
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(noun) garments or white goods that can be cleaned by laundering |
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Synonyms: laundry, washables |
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Related Words: garment, household linen, white goods |
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(noun) the flow of air that is driven backwards by an aircraft propeller |
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Synonyms: airstream, backwash, race, slipstream |
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Related Words: flow |
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