Wash

Definition: Wash

Wash

Noun

1. A thin coat of water-base paint.

2. The work of cleansing (usually with soap and water).

3. (western United States) the dry bed of an intermittent stream (as at the bottom of a canyon).

4. The flow of air that is driven backwards by an aircraft propeller.

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

6. Garments or white goods that can be cleaned by laundering.

7. (informal) any enterprise in which losses and gains cancel out.

Verb

1. Clean with some chemical process.

2. Cleanse (one's body) with soap and water.

3. Cleanse with a cleaning agent, such as soap, and water; "Wash the towels, please!".

4. Move by or as if by water; "The swollen river washed away the footbridge".

5. Be capable of being washed; "Does this material wash?".

6. Admit to testing or proof; "This silly excuse won't wash in traffic court".

7. Separate dirt or gravel from (precious minerals).

8. Apply a thin coating of paint, metal, etc., to.

9. 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".

10. : form by erosion: "The river washed a ravine into the mountainside".

11. : make moist; "The dew moistened the meadows".

12. : to cleanse (itself or another animal) by licking, as of a cat; "The cat washes several times a day".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "wash" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1120. (references)

Food & Agriculture

Geological

Metallurgy

Mining

Multilingual Slang

Physics

Slang in 1811

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

WASH

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Wash

Covering

Coat, paint, varnish, pay, incrust, stucco, dab, plaster, tar; wash; besmear, bedaub; anoint, do over; gild, plate, japan, lacquer, lacker, enamel, whitewash; parget; lay it on thick.

Marsh

Noun: marsh, swamp, morass, marish, moss, fen, bog, quagmire, slough, sump, wash; mud, squash, slush; baygall, cienaga, jhil, vlei.

Painting

Verb: paint, design, limn draw, sketch, pencil, scratch, shade, stipple, hatch, dash off, chalk out, square up; color, dead color, wash, varnish; draw in pencil; Noun: paint in oils; Noun: stencil; depict; (represent).

Water

Add water, water, wet; moisten; dilute, dip, immerse; merge; immerge, submerge; plunge, souse, duck, drown; soak, steep, macerate, pickle, wash, sprinkle, lave, bathe, affuse, splash, swash, douse, drench; dabble, slop, slobber, irrigate, inundate, deluge; syringe, inject, gargle.

Crosswords: Wash

Make sure the body doesn't wash up on shore (In the Line of Fire; writing credit: Jeff Maguire)

Wash Out, is that you (Hot Shots!; writing credit: Jim Abrahams; Pat Proft)

Hmmm? What do you think? I'll clean your place, I'll do the shopping, I'll even wash your clothes (Léon; writing credit: Luc Besson)

Wash and dry (Chicago; writing credit: Maurine Dallas Watkins; Bob Fosse)

Wash this (History of the World Part 1; writing credit: Mel Brooks)

So we could wash away the past, (Biggest Part of Me; performing artist: Ambrosia)

She'll wash her hair (Flavor of the Weak; performing artist: American Hi-Fi)

To wash away the pain (Summer Rain; performing artist: Carl Thomas)

And wash away this sin (The End of the Innocence; performing artist: Don Henley)

So have a good cry, wash out your heart (Better Love Next Time; performing artist: Dr. Hook)

A smart husband buys his wife very fine china so she won't trust him to wash it. (references; author: unknown)

What do more women do in the bathroom than men? Wash their hands. (Women: 80% - Men: 55%) (references; author: unknown)

While we were walking, we were watching window washers wash Washington's windows with warm washing water. (references; author: unknown)

The Big Wash (1948)

Reilly's Wash Day (1919)

Der Wash On Der Line (1919)

The Winning Wash (1915)

Mabel and Fatty's Wash Day (1915)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

References

• The 2000 Import and Export Market for Sinks, Wash Basins, Bidets, and Water Closet Pans in Poland (reference)

• The World Market for Household or Laundry-Type Washing Machines, Including Machines Which Both Wash and Dry, with a Dry Linen Capacity of Up to 10 kg: A 2004 Global Trade Perspective (reference)

• The 2000 Import and Export Market for Sinks, Wash Basins, Bidets, and Water Closet Pans in The Middle East (reference)

• The 2002 World Forecasts of Sinks, Wash Basins, Bidets, and Water Closet Pans Export Supplies (reference)

• The 2003 World Market Forecasts for Imported Sinks, Wash Basins, Bidets, and Water Closet Pans (reference)

  (more reference examples)

Books

• Five Little Monkeys Wash the Car (reference)

• Mastering the Watercolor Wash (reference)

• Nine-Day Inner Cleansing and Blood Wash for Renewed Youthfulness and Health (reference)

• Pen and Wash (reference)

• Wash Me (Matchbox) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• The Wash (reference)

• Car Wash (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Superstar Car Wash (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Consumer Goods

• SEEN ON TV SCW101 Simoniz Car Wash (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Attempting to ford a wash after a heavy rain Reconnaissance party of Charles Schanck. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Measuring Pasadena Base across wash at foot of San Antonio Canyon Base line party of Clement L. Garner. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Submerged aquatic vegetation along the lower Atchafalaya. Whole trees frequently wash down the river at flood stage. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Once popular tire reefs may break apart and wash up on beaches. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP).

C-5 Galaxy prepares to land at McChord Air Force Base, Wash.

Concrete roadway crossing built perpendicular to a wash to prevent erosion of roadway after the Los Alamos fires, New Mexico. Credit: Jeff Vanuga.

Fall colors Friendship Garden, Wash DC. Credit: USDA.

Bonsai at the National Arboreteum in Wash, DC. . Credit: USDA.

Sailing at Senator Wash on a beautiful morning. Credit: Lori Cook.

Sandy Wash in Safford. Credit: Unknown.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Arthur had adopted his normal crisis role, which was to stand with his mouth hanging open and let it all wash over him.

You wash before you under the pipe, and rinse behind you in the trough

Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards

Wash down there

Wash your hands and trough well

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Lavage - To wash out a body organ. (references)

Wash raw vegetables thoroughly before eating. (references)

Use only when outdoors and wash skin after coming indoors. (references)

Business

U.S. Procter & Gamble has more than 20 brands in Russia, among them Wash & Go, Head & Shoulders and Pantene hair care lines. (references)

It is important to note that typical German department stores do not offer a large variety of colors but rather different styles of towels (hand towel, towelette, wash cloth, beach towel, embroidered hand towel, washing mitt, etc.) in a smaller choice of colors. (references)

Economic History

Hungary

Some examples of this type of franchise would include: car wash service, equipment/home maintenance, laundry and cleaning services, etc. (references)

China

Augmenting this sustained growth are 10 sub-sector categories, namely: acrylic and vinyl based paints; granite, crude/rough; coniferous wood veneer sheets; doors, windows, frames, and thresholds; aluminum doors, windows, and frames; plasters; sinks, wash basins, and stainless steel products; sanitary fixtures, porcelain/china; and other miscellaneous structural materials. (references)

Human Rights

Colombia

In the country's other prisons, inmates pay to eat, drink, sleep on a mattress, wash clothes, or make telephone calls, and also pay protection fees to fellow inmates or to corrupt prison guards. (references)

Travel

Indonesia

At home, wash and soak all local fruit and vegetables in Clorox-treated, soapy water. (references)

Azerbaijan

The local fruit and vegetable markets offer a bewildering array of delicious produce, and it is recommended to wash all produce thoroughly before consuming. (references)

Taiwan

Visitors should also take special care to wash all fruits and vegetables before eating and avoid eating in any of the island's countless street stalls, at least during the first few weeks of the stay. (references)

Worker Rights

Chile

Children sell chewing gum on the street, wash windshields, work as street performers, beg, or help their parents to harvest crops. (references)

Romania

The prevalence of child labor, including begging, selling trinkets on the streets, or offering to wash car windshields, is widespread in the Roma community; these children range from 1 to 18 years of age. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "wash": at the wash ♦ back wash ♦ Black wash ♦ brain wash ♦ car wash ♦ car wash station ♦ carcass wash ♦ color wash ♦ colour wash ♦ dry wash ♦ eye wash fountain ♦ fiber wash ♦ filter wash connection ♦ flat wash ♦ give a wash ♦ hang out the wash to dry ♦ have a wash ♦ hog's wash ♦ i wash my hands of it ♦ it will all come out in the wash ♦ it will not wash ♦ lime wash ♦ machine wash ♦ nor all your tears wash out a word of it ♦ pig's wash ♦ pigwash wash ♦ pot wash ♦ refractory wash ♦ rock wash ♦ shrink in the wash ♦ soap wash ♦ still wash ♦ street wash ♦ To wash gold ♦ To wash the hands of ♦ torrential wash ♦ wash a blackamoor white ♦ wash ashore ♦ wash away ♦ wash away the bank ♦ wash back ♦ wash ball ♦ wash barrel ♦ wash board ♦ wash bottle ♦ wash dishes ♦ wash down ♦ wash down with ♦ wash drawing ♦ wash gilding ♦ wash gourd ♦ wash hair ♦ wash house ♦ wash leather ♦ wash marking ♦ wash off ♦ wash one's dirty linen at home ♦ wash one's dirty linen in public ♦ wash one's hands ♦ wash one's hands of ♦ wash one's hands of smb. ♦ wash one's hands of smth. ♦ wash oneself ♦ wash out ♦ wash over ♦ wash plain ♦ wash plates ♦ wash pond ♦ wash programme ♦ wash room ♦ wash sale ♦ wash stand ♦ wash strake ♦ wash the clothes ♦ wash the dishes ♦ wash the floor ♦ wash the goodness out of ♦ wash through ♦ wash tub ♦ wash underneath ♦ wash up ♦ wash up again ♦ wash up dishes ♦ wash up the dishes ♦ weekly wash ♦ white wash ♦ yellow wash. Additional references.

Beginning with "wash": wash-and-wear, wash-and-wear fabric, wash-and-wear-ability, wash-bag, wash-basin, wash-basins, wash-baskets, wash-boiler, wash-bowl, wash-cloth, wash-cubicles, wash-day, wash-days, wash-down, wash-fastness, wash-hand, wash-hand basin, wash-hand stand, wash-handbasin, wash-hand-basin, wash-hoos, wash-house, wash-houses, wash-in, wash-it-and-leave-it, wash-leather, wash-leathers, wash-'n'-make-up, wash-off, Wash-o-rama, wash-out, wash-out-colour, wash-room, wash-stand, wash-stands, wash-through, wash-tub, wash-up, wash-wipe, wash-woman.

Ending with "wash": car-wash, pre-wash, quick-wash, wish-wash.

Containing "wash": rough-and-crusty-but-it'll-wash-off-by-monday-morning.

Afrikaans

waskamer (lavatory, washing-accomodation, wash-place, washroom, wash-room). (various references)

Albanian

llapashitje, cekëtinë (shallow, shoal), e larë, kapërdij (swallow up), lëng (dip, dissolution, fluid, juice, liquid, liquor, milk, sap, water), lag (dabble, damp, dampen, douse, drench, get wet, moisten, soak, souse, wet), lahem (bathe, lave, pay off, square accounts with smb., swim in), bëj banjë (bathe), larje (bathe, bathing, cleansing, cleanup, development, lavement, scour, washing), vesh me argjend, llum (dregs, dross, grounds, Lees, ooze, raff, ragtag, riffraff, scab, scum, scut, sludge, tails, vermin), lyej muret, përplasem (bump, bump into, cannon, cannon into, clash, collide, crash, dash, foul, hurtle, jar, pound, run into, splash), rroba të lara, rrufull, shtresë (bed, coat, coating, course, covering, estate, flake, floor, horizon, layer, nappe, reach, region, seam, sheet, strata, stratum, streak, tract), laj (bathe, clear, do, elutriate, flush, liquidate, pay up, rinse out, scour, settle, sponge, take out). (various references)

Arabic 

‏خضع (bend, bow, compel, conquer, hew, knuckle under, kowtow, reclaim, reduce, steady, subdue, subject, subjugate, submit, subordinate, succumb, throw in one's hand, undergo, yield), ‏دهن بطبقة رقيقة, ‏ثبت على محك النقد, ‏إندفاع الموج, ‏إنجرف (drift), ‏الاجتراف الخلفي, ‏الغسالة ماء اغتسل به, ‏الغسول مستحضر طبي, ‏جرف (cliff, curette, drag, dragging, drift, escarpment, palisade, plow, precipice, rake, shovel, sweep, sweep away, sweeping, transport, undercut bank), ‏دام (bleeding, bloody, continue, eddy, gyrate, last, perpetuate, swirl), ‏جلا (be evacuated, evacuate, pan, polish, puzzle out, rub, scour, scrub, shine), ‏نقع (assuage, drench, impregnate, impregnation, infuse, mashing, saturate, saturation, slake, soak, souse, steep, temper, water), ‏طبقة رقيقة من طلاء, ‏طمي (alluvial, alluvium, debris, silt), ‏ترقرق بالماء, ‏غسل (bathe, irrigate, irrigation, launder, lave, lotion, rinse, scrub, swill, washing), ‏غسيل (laundry, lavement, lye, washing), ‏غمر (deluge, douse, dunk, engulf, float, flood, flow, gulf, immerse, immersion, inundate, inundation, load, overflow, overwhelm, sluice, souse, submerge, suffuse, swamp), ‏قابل للغسل (washable), ‏لعق (lap, lap up, lick, licking), ‏نزل بقوة سائل ما, ‏جزء من اليابسة تغسله أمواج البحر. (various references)

Asturian

llavar (to wash). (various references)

Aymara

jariña (to wash). (various references)

Basque

ikuzi (wash to). (various references)

Bemba

ukusamba (shower, to wash). (various references)

Blackfoot

sstsimiiyi (to wash hands), ssisskiitsi (to wash face), ssiihkinááwaatsi (to wash hair). (various references)

Bulgarian 

пера (feathering, launder), диря на кораб, пясък (grit, sand, sandpit), промивам (bathe, irrigate, lave, pan, scour, sluice), пране (ironing, laundry, washing), прибой (punch, surf), покривам с тънък слой, помия (dishwater, draff, hog-wash, pigwash, rinsings, slipslop, slops, swill, wish-wash), подривам се, брътвеж (babble, chat, footle, palaver, prate, prattle, quack, rigmarole), пера се (launder), лосион (lotion), плискане (lap, plash, slosh, spatter, swash), плискам се (dabble, lap, plash, slop about, spatter, swash), плитчина на река, плитчина на море, измиване (ablution, ablutions, detrition), измивам се (wash off, wash out), измивам (wash away, wash down, wash off, wash out), изпирам (wash off, wash out), издържам критика, подривам (blast, blow up, disrupt, eat away, erode, gut, sap, shovel under, tear up, undermine, wash out, wear away), обогатявам по мокър начин, разтвор (liquor, solution, spirit), чакъл (breakstone, metal, rubble), тънък слой боя, тънък пласт метал, тоалетна вода, къпя (bathe), килватер (wake), отмиване (washout), боядисвам (color, colour, decorate, dip, engrain, paint), окъпвам (bathe), старо корито на река, опирам (lean, recline), неферментирал малц, нанос (alluvion, alluvium, blanket, debris, deposit, deposition, drift, float, silt, warp), мия бреговете, мия (bathe, clean, do, lave, lick, mop, scour, wash up), миене (lavement, washing), залята от вода местност, златоносен пясък (dirt, gravel, lead), ерозия (degradation, erosion, washout), отмивам (wash away, wash down, wash off). (various references)

Cebuano

maglaba (to wash). (various references)

Chamorro

para ma fágasi (to wash). (various references)

Chinese 

蕩 (a pond, dissolute, move, pool, shake, squander, sweep away), 盥 , 澉 (place name), 滌 (cleanse), 渲 , 洗涤 (Cleanse, Cleansed, Cleansing, Laundered, laundering, Washed, washed-out, washed-up, washing-up), 洗滌 (rinse, washing), 洗刷 (brush, scrub), 洴 (bleach). (various references)

Cornish

omwolghy (to wash oneself). (various references)

Czech

pomyje (dishwater, hog-wash, rinsings, swill), bahno (morass, mud, ooze, quag, quagmire, sludge), líèidlo (paint, painting), mýt (clean), mýt se, navlhèit (dabble, damp, dampen, humidify, humify, moisten, wet), omývat (bathe, elutriate), šplouchání, oprat, vyprat (wash out), prádlo (clothes, laundry, linen, washing), prát (launder), praní (washing), spláchnout (become flushed, flush, swill), umýt (sponge), umytí, voda (dishwater, water), opláchnout. (various references)

Danish

vaske. (various references)

Dutch

wassen (accrue, arise, ascend, bathe, blend, get up, go up, grow, lift, mingle, mix, rise, shuffle), uitwassen (elution, leaching, lessivage, lixiviation, scavenging, scrubbing, wash out, washout), de was doen. (various references)

Ecuadorian Quechua

tacllana (to wash clothes), maillana (to wash one's body). (various references)

Esperanto

lesivi, lavi. (various references)

Faeroese

vaska. (various references)

Farsi 

پاک کردن (Absolve, Clean, Cleanse, Efface, Erase, Mop, Obliterate, Purge, Purify, Rub, Sancify, Scour, Scrape, Sublimate, Ventilate, Winnow, Wipe), غسل (Ablution, Dip, Soak), رختشوءی , شستن (Launder, Leach, Scour), شستشودادن , شستشو (Ablution, Bath, Bathe, Launder, Lavation, Lotion, Rinse, Souse, Washout). (various references)

Finnish

pestä. (various references)

French

laver (put on a wash), sillage (wake), blanchissage (washing). (various references)

Frisian

waskje (to wash), skûtelwaskje (wash up). (various references)

German

waschen (bathe, clean, clean down, launder, lave, pan, shampoo, sluice, sponge down, to bathe, to give a wash, to launder, to lave, to wash, washing), spülen (douche, flush, gargle, irrigate, rinse, scavenge, swill, to flush (out), wash up). (various references)

Greek 

πλύνω, πλένω (wash up). (various references)

Hebrew 

לשטוף (flood, inundate, rinse, stream, swab, swill, wash away), לכבוס (launder), לכבס (launder), לרחוץ (bathe, rinse), תרחיץ (lotion, shampoo), שטיפה (flooding, flushing, irrigation, lavation, rinsing, washing), כיבס (launder), כביסה (laundering, laundry, washing), רחיצה (ablution, bathing, washing), סחיפה (drift, erosion, leeway, sweeping). (various references)

Hungarian

mosás (degreasing, lavage, washing), mos (to bathe, to clean, to degrease, to jig, to launder, to lave, to pan, to scrub, to wash). (various references)

Indonesian

mencuci (launder, lave), membasuh (rinse, slop), cucian (laundry, manner of washing), cuci. (various references)

Inuktitut

irmikpaa (to wash). (various references)

Irish

nigh, ionnail (bathe). (various references)

Italian

lavare (flush, mop), scia (scent, track, trail, train, vapour trail, wake). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

洗う (to wash). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

いっせん (a battle, a bout, a flash, a game, a line, one thousand, thoroughly wash away), とぐ (to grind, to hone, to polish, to scour, to sharpen, to wash), とぎしる (water that has been used to wash rice), ウォッシュアンドウエア (wash-and-wear), ゆすぐ (to rinse, to wash out), ストーンウォッシュ (stone wash), あらいあげる (to finish washing, to investigate thoroughly, to wash well), あらいきよめる (to cleanse, to wash clean), あらいながす (to wash away), あらいなおす (to reconsider, to wash again), あらいおとす (to wash off, to wash out), あらいたてる (to check up on, to examine closely, to ferret out, to wash carefully), てをひく (to lead by the hand, to wash one's hands of), あしをあらう (to quit, to wash one's feet, to wash one's hands of), たんさいが (wash drawing), せんめん (have a wash, wash up), せんめんき (wash basin), せんしゃ (car wash, tank), せんしゃじょう (car wash), つくばい (stone wash basin found in Japanese gardens), うちよせる (to attack, to break onto, to wash ashore), うちあげる (dash, to close, to finish, to launch, to shoot up, to wash up), さらう (to abduct, to carry off, to dredge, to kidnap, to practise, to rehearse, to review, to run away with, to sweep away, to wash away), ながしこむ (to pour into, to wash down), ノーアイロン (drip-dry, no-iron, wash and wear), おしながす (to wash away), すすぐ (to rinse, to wash out), あらう (to wash). (various references)

Korean 

세척. (various references)

Macedonian

mie (to wash). (various references)

Manx

oonlaghey (bathe, purify), niee (bathe, flush, launder, pan), niaghyn (laundering, laundry, washing), leaght-daah (wash-tint), cur brat leaght-daah er, bashlagh (dash). (various references)

Maori

horoi-a (to wash). (various references)

Maya

po' (laundress, to wash clothes), huybankuuns (to wash one's hair), chal (to wash). (various references)

Mohawk

-enohares (to wash something). (various references)

Norwegian

vaske. (various references)

Occitan

lavar. (various references)

Papago

wakon (to wash). (various references)

Papiamen

laba. (various references)

Pig Latin

ashway.(various references)

Polish

myć. (various references)

Portuguese

lavar (bath, buddle, do up, lave, mop, square up), lavagem (ablution, rinse, rinsing, slipslop, washout, washup, wish-wash). (various references)

Provencal

lavar (to wash). (various references)

Quechua

t'aqsaq (in order to wash clothing). (various references)

Romanian

placã de metal la dubluri, albi (blanch, bleach, fade, gleam, grizzle, hoary, shimmer, whiten, whitewash), aluviuni (river deposits), bere slabã (mild beer, small beer), ceai slab (washy tea), clãti (rinse), curãţa (brush, brush up, burnish, clean, cleanse, clear, demolish, do, dredge, dress, dust, furbish, Gill, grub, mop, mop up, pick, purge, purify, refine, rid, rinse, scavenge, scoop, scour, scrub, skin, trim, wipe), inundaţie (deluge, flood, freshet), lãturi (dish water, hogwash, kitchen stuff, pig swill, pig's wash, slab, slop, slops, swill), leşia, limpezi (clarify, clear, filter, rinse, settle), înãlbi (blanch, bleach, blench, poach, whiten), placa (metal, tackle, veneer), zoaie (dish water, slops), plescãit al valurilor, scãlda (bath, bathe, lave, wet), se spãla (have a wash), spãla (bathe, clean, fade, flush, irrigate, launder, lave, mop, mop up, pan, slush, stream, sweep, wash up), spãla rufe, spãlãturã (douche, enema, lavement, washing), spãlare (lavation, scour), spãlat (ablution, clean, lavation, tidy, washed, washing), supã slabã, uda (bedew, damp, dip, douse, drench, irrigate, moisten, soak, souse, sparge, splash, spray, sprinkle, squirt, stain, steep, water, wet), vorbãrie goalã (buncombe, flippancy, fustian, garrulity, jazz, piffle, rant), loţiune (lotion, shampoo, shampooing). (various references)

Romansch

lavar (to wash). (various references)

Romany

isthovàv (to wash). (various references)

Ruanda

koza (to wash). (various references)

Russian 

мыть (lave, scrub 2, sluice). (various references)

Samoan

e fufulu (to wash). (various references)

Scottish

nigh (cleanse, purify). (various references)

Sepedi

hlatswa (to wash). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

zapljuskivati (lap, pound, slap, splash), veš (laundry), splačine (hog-wash, pig's wash, pigwash, swill), razlokati, prati (clean), pranje (ablution, washing), poplaviti (deluge, flood, inundate, overflow, whelm), pomije (dishwater, pig's wash, pigwash, rinsings, slops, swill), oprati (brush, launder, lave, shampoo, wash up), natopiti (drench, imbrue, saturate, soak, steep, wet), nakvasiti (damp, dampen, get slightly wet, get wet, imbrue, liquor, macerate, moisten), isprati (pump out, rinse, rinse out, wash away, wash off), biti prihvatljiv (stand up). (various references)

Shona

-suka (to wash one's teeth), -geza (to wash). (various references)

Sicilian

lavarsi (to wash oneself), lavari (to wash). (various references)

Spanish

lavar (Buddle, dip, do, douse, launder, lave, rinse, shampoo, sluice, swill, wash down, wash out, wash up). (various references)

Sranan

wasi. (various references)

Swazi

kú-geza (to wash). (various references)

Swedish

tvätta (clean, dry clean, washing), tvätt (laundry, washing), spola (ditch, flush, irrigate, rinse, scrub, sluice, spool, swill, wind), bestryka (coat, cover, daub, sweep). (various references)

Turkish

losyon (lotion), aşındırmak (abrade, attack, bite, corrode, eat, eat at, eat away, erode, fray, fray out, fret, gnaw into, wash away, wash off, wear, wear off), antiseptik sıvı, badanalamak (lime wash, whitewash), boyamak (color, color-wash, colour, decorate, dye, engrain, imbrue, paint, polish, stain), bulaşık suyu (dishwater, swill), dümen suyu (backwash, dead water, track, wake), dalga sesi (lap), elini yüzünü yıkamak, erezyon, erezyona uğratmak, inandırmak (assure, assure smb. that, convince, make believe, persuade, satisfy, sell smb. on, talk smb. into smth.), çalkantı sesi, kıyıya vuran süprüntü, yıkayıp temizlemek (wash away, wash off, wash out), mutfak artığı (draff), sulu yemek (slops), suyla temizlemek (swab down, swob down), taşımak (bear, bear away, carry, carry away, convey, haul, put across, relocate, remove, ride, run, stanchion, sustain, tote, transport, waft, walk, wear), uçak izi (vapor trail, vapour trail), yıkama (lustration, washing, washing up), yıkamak (bath, bathe, clean down, launder, lave, lustrate, scrub, sluice, splash), yıkanır olmak, yıkanabilir (washable), yıkanma (ablution, bath, washing), yıkanmak (bath, bathe, clean oneself, splash, take a bath), ince boya tabakası. (various references)

Turkmen 

яuwundyrmak, яuwmak. (various references)

Ukrainian

болото (back water, bog, mire, morass, ooze, quag, quagmire, slew, slue, sump, swamp), мити (bathe, lave, mop, sponge), мийний (washing), змивати (rinse, wash out), завихрення (whirligig), заливати (bathe, fill in, overflow, overwhelm, steep, suffuse, swamp, wash down), акварель (aquarelle, water, watercolor, watercolour), прибій (surf, swash), бурда (balderdash, cat-lap, slipslop, wish-wash), обмивати, промивати (backwash, bathe, clean, douche, scour, sluice), промивальний, пратися (launder), прати (launder), прання (washing), пральний (abstergent, washing), примочка (embrocation, lotion), алювій (alluvium), каньйон, струмок (arroyo, bourn, dribble, effluent, nullah, nymph, rivulet, streamlet, watercourse, wellspring), умивати, умивання (lavation, rinse, wash up), рідка фарба, рідина (fluid, liquid), хлюпатися (dabble, paddle), кільватер (wake), митися (bath, lave), ковток води, миття (bath, scour, souse, washing), калюжа (dub, plash, pool, puddle, slop, wallow), гравій (ballast, gravel, grit, sand), вимивання, випрана білизна, орошувати, очистити, яр (ravine), кропити (asperse, besprinkle, sprinkle). (various references)

Vietnamese 

tiếng sóng có kết quả tốt, sự tắm rửa (bathing, washing), sự tắm gội (washing), sự giặt giũ, sớm muộn rồi cũng ra ánh sáng, sớm muộn rồi cũng giải thích ra, quần áo giặt, nước vo gạo nước lã, nước gội nước rửa bát, nước ốc lớp tráng, nơi giặt nước rửa. (various references)

Welsh

golchi (bathe, lather). (various references)

Yucatec

p'o'ik. (various references)

Zulu

-geza. (various references)

alloes, coluas, lava, lavabam, lavabant, lavabis, lavabit, lavabitis, lavabitur, lavabo, lavabunt, lavamini, lavandos, lavandum, lavant, lavantem, lavare, lavarent, lavaret, lavaretur, lavas, lavate, lavatione, lavent, laventque, laver, laverat, laverint, laveris, laverit, lavero, laverunt, laveruntque, lavet, lavetur, lavi, lavissent, lavisset, lavisti, lavit, lota, lotae, lotaque, lotham, lotis, lotisque, lotos, lotus, luere. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "wash": washabilities, washability, washable, washables, washateria, washaterias, washbasin, washbasins, washboard, washboards, washbowl, washbowls, washcloth, washcloths, washday, washdays, washed, washer, washerman, washermen, washers, washerwoman, washerwomen, washes, washeteria, washeterias, washhouse, washhouses, washier, washiest, washing, washings, washout, washouts, washrag, washrags, washroom, washrooms, washstand, washstands, washtub, washtubs, washup, washups, washwoman, washwomen, washy. (additional references)

Words ending with "wash": awash, backwash, brainwash, carwash, downwash, eyewash, flatwash, hogwash, mouthwash, outwash, prewash, rainwash, rewash, swash, whitewash. (additional references)

Words containing "wash": backwashed, backwashes, backwashing, brainwashed, brainwasher, brainwashers, brainwashes, brainwashing, brainwashings, carwashes, dishwasher, dishwashers, downwashes, eyewashes, flatwashes, hogwashes, kwashiorkor, kwashiorkors, mouthwashes, outwashes, prewashed, prewashes, prewashing, rainwashed, rainwashes, rainwashing, rewashed, rewashes, rewashing, stonewashed, swashbuckle, swashbuckled, swashbuckler, swashbucklers, swashbuckles, swashbuckling, swashed, swasher, swashers, swashes, swashing, unwashed, unwashedness, unwashednesses, unwasheds, whitewashed, whitewasher, whitewashers, whitewashes, whitewashing, whitewashings. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Wash" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aash, awsa, gwash, iwasg, iwish, waaah, wach, wacht, wahh, Wahhh, waish, waksh, warsh, washs, wasi, wasn, waso, wass, wasu, wasy, wath, waz, wazch, wazy, Weah, weesh, wisha, wishd, wisht, wishy, wizh, woah, wohs, worsh, woshe. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: haws, shaw.

-1 letter: ash, has, haw, saw, sha, was, wha.

-2 letters: ah, as, aw, ha, sh.

+1 letter: awash, chaws, hawks, hawse, pshaw, schwa, shawl, shawm, shawn, shaws, swash, swath, thaws, washy, whams, whaps, whats, wisha.

+2 letters: bashaw, bushwa, cahows, cashaw, cashew, cushaw, hawser, hawses, pshaws, rawish, rewash, schwas, shadow, shawed, shawls, shawms, swarth, swatch, swathe, swaths, thraws, wahoos, washed, washer, washes, washup, whacks, whales, whangs, wharfs, whaups, wheals, wheats, whenas, wraths.