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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
wash/wɒʃ/

▶verb

• 1 clean with water and, typically, soap or detergent.

  ■ remove (a stain or dirt) in this way.

  ■ (of fabric, a garment, or dye) withstand cleaning to a specified degree without shrinking or fading.

  ■ do one's laundry.

• 2 (of flowing water) carry or move in a particular direction.

  ■ be carried by flowing water.

  ■ sift metallic particles from (earth or gravel) by running water through it.

• 3 (wash over) occur all around without greatly affecting.

• 4 literary wet or moisten.

• 5 brush with a thin coat of dilute paint or ink.

  ■ (wash something with) coat inferior metal with (a film of gold or silver from a solution).

• 6 [with neg.] informal seem convincing or genuine.

▶noun

• 1 an act of washing or an instance of being washed.

  ■ a quantity of clothes needing to be or just having been washed.

• 2 the water or air disturbed by a moving boat or aircraft.

  ■ the breaking of waves on a shore.

• 3 a medicinal or cleansing solution.

• 4 a thin coating of paint or metal.

• 5 silt or gravel carried by water and deposited as sediment.

  ■ a sandbank exposed only at low tide.

• 6 malt fermenting in preparation for distillation.

• 7 N. Amer. informal a situation or result that is of no benefit to either of two opposing sides.

– phrases
come out in the wash informal be resolved eventually.
wash one's dirty linen (or laundry) in public informal discuss one's personal affairs in public.
wash one's hands euphemistic go to the toilet.
wash one's hands of disclaim responsibility for. [orig. with biblical allusion to Matt. 27:24.]

– phrasal verbs
wash out N. Amer. be excluded from a course or position after failing to meet the required standards.
wash something out

• 1 cause an event to be postponed or cancelled because of rain.

• 2 (of a flood or downpour) make a breach in a road.

wash up

• 1 (also wash something up) chiefly Brit. clean crockery and cutlery after use.

• 2 N. Amer. clean one's hands and face.

– derivatives
washability noun,
washable adjective.

– origin OE wæscan (v.), of Gmc origin; rel. to water.

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
Wash.

▶abbreviation Washington.