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