wash

Sense 1 noun

a thin coat of water-base paint

Sense 2 verb

clean with some chemical process

Sense 3 noun

the work of cleansing (usually with soap and water)

Sense 4 verb

cleanse (one's body) with soap and water

Sense 5 noun

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

Sense 6 verb

cleanse with a cleaning agent, such as soap, and water

Wash the towels, please!

Sense 7 noun

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

Sense 8 verb

move by or as if by water

The swollen river washed away the footbridge

Sense 9 noun

the flow of air that is driven backwards by an aircraft propeller

Sense 10 verb

be capable of being washed

Does this material wash?

Sense 11 noun

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

Sense 12 verb

admit to testing or proof

This silly excuse won't wash in traffic court

Sense 13 noun

garments or white goods that can be cleaned by laundering

Sense 14 verb

separate dirt or gravel from (precious minerals)

Sense 15 noun

any enterprise in which losses and gains cancel out

at the end of the year the accounting department showed that it was a wash

Sense 16 verb

apply a thin coating of paint, metal, etc., to

Sense 17 verb

remove by the application of water or other liquid and soap or some other cleaning agent

he washed the dirt from his coat

Sense 18 verb

form by erosion

The river washed a ravine into the mountainside

Sense 19 verb

make moist

The dew moistened the meadows

Sense 20 verb

wash or flow against

the waves laved the shore

Sense 21 verb

to cleanse (itself or another animal) by licking

The cat washes several times a day