| WAS | the work of cleansing (usually with soap and water) |
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| WAS | (informal) any enterprise in which losses and gains cancel out |
| WAS | garments or white goods that can be cleaned by laundering |
| WAS | a watercolor made by applying a series of monochrome washes one over the other |
| WAS | a thin coat of water-base paint |
| WAS | (western United States) the dry bed of an intermittent stream (as at the bottom of a canyon) |
| WAS | the flow of air that is driven backwards by an aircraft propeller |
| WAS | to cleanse (itself or another animal) by licking, as of a cat |
| WAS | cleanse (one's body) with soap and water |
| WAS | wash or flow against |
| WAS | make moist |
| WAS | form by erosion |