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clean with some chemical process cleanse (one's body) with soap and water cleanse with a cleaning agent, such as soap, and water; "Wash the towels, please!" move by or as if by water; "The swollen river washed away the footbridge" be capable of being washed; "Does this material wash?" admit to testing or proof; "This silly excuse won't wash in traffic court" a thin coat of water-base paint separate dirt or gravel from (precious minerals) the work of cleansing (usually with soap and water) the dry bed of an intermittent stream (as at the bottom of a canyon) apply a thin coating of paint, metal, etc., to washout: 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" 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" slipstream: the flow of air that is driven backwards by an aircraft propeller form by erosion; "The river washed a ravine into the mountainside" a watercolor made by applying a series of monochrome washes one over the other moisten: make moist; "The dew moistened the meadows" lave: wash or flow against; "the waves laved the shore" laundry: garments or white goods that can be cleaned by laundering to cleanse (itself or another animal) by licking; "The cat washes several times a day" any enterprise in which losses and gains cancel out; "at the end of the year the accounting department showed that it was a wash"
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the channel or break produced by erosion of relatively soft soil by water; "it was several days after the storm before they could repair the washout and open the road" 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" flop: someone who is unsuccessful
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| wasp |
a white person of Anglo-Saxon ancestry who belongs to a Protestant denomination social or solitary hymenopterans typically having a slender body with the abdomen attached by a narrow stalk and having a formidable sting
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| waste |
spend thoughtlessly; throw away; "He wasted his inheritance on his insincere friends"; "You squandered the opportunity to get and advanced degree" use inefficiently or inappropriately; "waste heat"; "waste a joke on an unappreciative audience" get rid of; "We waste the dirty water by channeling it into the sewer" run off as waste; "The water wastes back into the ocean" neutralize: get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing; "The mafia liquidated the informer"; "the double agent was neutralized" any materials unused and rejected as worthless or unwanted; "they collect the waste once a week"; "much of the waste material is carried off in the sewers" consume: spend extravagantly; "waste not, want not" pine away: lose vigor, health, or flesh, as through grief; "After her husband died, she just pined away" useless or profitless activity; using or expending or consuming thoughtlessly or carelessly; "if the effort brings no compensating gain it is a waste"; "mindless dissipation of natural resources" cause to grow thin or weak; "The treatment emaciated him" thriftlessness: the trait of wasting resources; "a life characterized by thriftlessness and waste"; "the wastefulness of missed opportunities" barren: an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation; "the barrens of central Africa"; "the trackless wastes of the desert" lay waste to: devastate or ravage; "The enemy lay waste to the countryside after the invasion" desert: located in a dismal or remote area; desolate; "a desert island"; "a godforsaken wilderness crossroads"; "a wild stretch of land"; "waste places" (law) reduction in the value of an estate caused by act or neglect waste away; "Political prisoners are wasting away in many prisons all over the world"
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| Wassermann |
German bacteriologist who developed a diagnostic test for syphilis (1866-1925) Wassermann test: a blood test to detect syphilis; a complement fixation test is used to detect antibodies to the syphilis organism treponema; a positive reaction indicates the presence of antibodies and therefore syphilis infection
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