Wash Out

Definition: Wash Out

Wash Out

Verb

1. Prevent or interrupt due to rain; "The storm had washed out the game".

2. Wash free from unwanted substances, such as dirt; "Wash out your dirty shirt in the sink".

3. Make useless by the force of water; "The hail storms had washed out the bridges".

4. 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".

5. Deplete of strength or vitality; "The illness washed her out".

6. Drain off the color in the course of laundering; "The harsh soap washed out the delicate blouse".

7. Lose color in the process of being washed; "The expensive shirt washed out in the German washing machine".

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

Environment

Geography

Transportation

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Synonyms: Wash Out

Necessity

Phrase: it cannot be helped; there is no help for, there is no helping it; it will be, it must be, it needs to be, it must be so, it will have its way; the die is cast; jacta est alea; che sara sara; "it is written"; one's days are numbered, one's fate is sealed; Fata obstant; diis aliter visum; actum me invito factus, non est meus actus; aujord'hui roi demain rien; quisque suos patimur manes;"The moving finger writes and having writ moves on. Nor all your piety and wit can bring it back to cancel half a line, nor all your tears wash out a word of it.".

Obliteration

Verb: efface, obliterate, erase, raze, rase, expunge, cancel; blot out, take out, rub out, scratch out, strike out, wipe out, wash out, sponge out; wipe off, rub off; wipe away; deface, render illegible; draw the pen through, apply the sponge.

Crosswords: Wash Out

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

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

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Health

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

This test uses an instrument called a bronchoscope--a long, narrow tube with a light at the end--to wash out, or lavage, cells and other materials from inside the lungs. (references)

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Expression using "wash out": nor all your tears wash out a word of it. Additional references.

Arabic 

‏نصل اللون, ‏نظف (char, clean, clean out, clear, clear away, do, mop, pan, purge, purify, rub, sanitize, scavenge, scour, scrub, swab). (various references)

Bulgarian 

осуетявам (abort, baffle, disappoint, foil, frustrate, mock, pour cold water on, scatter, scotch, short circuit, sink, spoil), отхвърлям (abnegate, avoid, cast away, cast down, challenge, decline, demur, deny, disallow, disclaim, dismiss, except, exclude, fling away, ignore, kiss off, negative, override, proscribe, rebuff, rebut, refuse, refute, renounce, repudiate, scout, set aside, throw back, throw down, throw off, throw out, toss away, toss over, vote down, wave aside), отменям (abate, abrogate, annul, avoid, cancel, countermand, disaffirm, extinguish, override, quash, raise, recall, remit, repeal, rescind, retract, reverse, revoke, scrub, supersede, undo, withdraw), елиминирам (eliminate, knock out), подривам (blast, blow up, disrupt, eat away, erode, gut, sap, shovel under, tear up, undermine, wash, wear away), подмивам (undermine, wash away), изтривам в съзнанието си, измивам се (wash, wash off), измивам (wash, wash away, wash down, wash off), изпирам се (wash off), изпирам (wash, wash off). (various references)

Chinese 

沖 (dynamic, forceful, highway, powerful, public road, strong, to charge, to collide, to dash, to punch, to rinse, to rush, to wash out, to water). (various references)

Czech

vyprat (wash), vypláchnout (flush out, rinse, rinse out), vymýt (flush out, swill, wash away, wash off), fiasko (disaster, failure, fiasco, flop, squib, washout). (various references)

Danish

wash out, underminering (pocket, pocket of a wound, scour, undermining, undermining scouring, underwashing, washing away), udvaskning (leaching, lessivage, lixiviation, rain-out, washout, wash-out), udvaske (leaching, lessivage, lixiviation), udludning (leaching, lessivage, lixiviation), negativ vridning (washout, wash-out), kontrastmindskning, bortskylning (undermining, undermining scouring, underwashing, washing away). (various references)

Dutch

verdrinken (drown), uitwassen (wash), uitspoeling van de bodem (leaching, lessivage, lixiviation), uitspoeling (irrigation, washing), uitspoelen (leaching, lessivage, lixiviation, washout), uitloging van de bodem (leaching, lessivage, lixiviation), uitloging (leaching, lessivage, lixiviation), onderspoeling (underwashing), negatieve wrong (washout, wash-out), elueren (elute). (various references)

Finnish

uuttuminen (leaching, lessivage, lixiviation), savihiukkasten kulkeutuminen (leaching, lessivage, lixiviation), negatiivinen kierto, huuhtoutuminen (flushing, leaching, lessivage, lixiviation, washout). (various references)

French

rinçage, partir au lavage, lixiviation, lessivage, lavage par la pluie, faire partir au lavage, faire partir � l'eau, expiration, diminution de l'incidence � l'extrémité de l'aile (wash-out), dégradation hydrologique, atténuation, affouillement (washing away, washout), érosion (wash, washout), éluviation, éluer. (various references)

German

Auswaschen (eat away, erode, flush out, rinse out, sponge out, swill). (various references)

Greek 

έκπλυσις εδαφικού υλικού (leaching, lessivage, lixiviation), έκπλυσις (leaching, lessivage, lixiviation), έκπλυση (leaching, washout), συστροφή ακροπτερυγίου μειωτική της γωνίας προσβολής, ξεπλένω (rinse, rinse out, scour, swill), μείωση του κοντράστ, εξόξυνση (washout, wash-out), αρνητική συστροφή ακροπτερυγίου, διάβρωση από νερά βροχής (underwashing), διάβρωση από νερά πλημμύρας (underwashing). (various references)

Hungarian

kimosás (ablation, elutriation, washout, wash-out), öblítés (flush, lavage, leaching, rinse, swill, wash-out). (various references)

Italian

svergolatura negativa (wash-out), scalzamento (caving, sapping, scour, undercutting, undermining, underwashing), sbiadire (fade), lisciviazione (leaching, lessivage, lixiviation), lisciviatura (leaching, lessivage, lixiviation), dilavamento (dilution, leaching, lessivage, lixiviation, undermining scouring, underwashing, washing away, washing-out, washout). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

濯すぐ (to rinse, to wash out), 濯ぐ (to rinse, to wash out), 洗い落とす (to wash off, to wash out). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

すすぐ (to rinse, to wash out), あらいおとす (to wash off, to wash out), ゆすぐ (to rinse, to wash out). (various references)

Manx

niee magh. (various references)

Pig Latin

ashway outay

Portuguese

torção negativa (washout, wash-out), lixiviação (leaching, lessivage, lixiviation), lavagem (ablution, rinse, rinsing, slipslop, wash, washout, washup, wish-wash), escavar (cave, chip, delve, dig, dig in, erode, examine, excavate, explore, gouge, grub, gully, gutter, hollow, investigate, mole, pit, research, scoop), eluviação (leaching, lessivage, lixiviation), desgastar (abrade, chafe, corrode, fray, frazzle, fret, outwear, rub, waste, wear, wear down, wear off, wear out). (various references)

Romanian

ratat (failure), fiasco (abortion, failure, fiasco, naught), eşec (abortion, check, defeat, discomfiture, fail, failing, failure, fiasco, fizzle, flop, lame duck, miscarriage, naught, rebuff, repulsion, set back). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

ispiranje (ablution, rinse). (various references)

Spanish

socavación por las aguas (underwashing), método de lavado, lixiviación (leaching, lessivage, lixiviation), lavar (Buddle, dip, do, douse, launder, lave, rinse, shampoo, sluice, swill, wash, wash down, wash up), lavado (abstersion, dipping, wash, washed, washing), enjuagar (flush, rinse, rinse out, swill out, wash up), eluir (elute), arruinar (bane, bankrupt, beggar, blast, blight, break, dilapidate, leak, mess up, murder, ruin, scuttle, tear, throw over, wreck), alabeo negativo (washout, wash-out), acabar (accomodate, accomplish, break off, come, complement, complete, discontinue, eat up, end, expire, finish, follow up, get over, give over, go out, hole, knock off, land, leave off, let up, play out, round off, terminate, throw over, top off, use up, waste, wind up, work out). (various references)

Swedish

utslätning, urlakning (maceration). (various references)

Turkish

yıkayıp temizlemek (wash, wash away, wash off), iptal etmek (abolish, abort, abrogate, annihilate, annul, avoid, blank out, call off, cancel, countermand, declare off, disaffirm, disallow, invalidate, irritate, negate, nullify, overrule, quash, remit, repeal, rescind, reverse, revoke, scrub, set aside, setaside, stultify, suspend, vacate, void, write off), feshetmek (abjure, abolish, abrogate, annihilate, annul, call off, cancel, countermand, dissolve, do away with, outlaw, quash, remit, rescind, set aside, vacate), örtbas etmek (blanket, cloak, compound, conceal, cover up, explain away, gloss, gloss over, gloze, gloze over, hugger mugger, huggermugger, hush, hush up, keep smth. quiet, obscure, palliate, paper, sink, smother up, suppress, sweep under the carpet, veneer, whitewash). (various references)

Ukrainian

змивати (rinse, wash), анулювати (abate, abrogate, annul, avoid, bar, cancel, defeat, disannul, elide, null, nullify, overrule, quash, repeal, rescind, undo, withdraw), линяти (fade, moult, shell, skin). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: outwash, washout.

-1 letter: outsaw.

-2 letters: autos, hosta, oaths, shoat, shout, south, swath, thaws, thous, whats.

-3 letters: auto, hast, hats, haut, haws, host, hots, hows, huts, oast, oath, oats, oust, outs, shat, shaw, shot, show, shut, soth, staw, stoa, stow, swat, swot, taos, taus, taws, thaw, thou, thus, tosh, tows, tush, twas, twos, utas, wash, wast, wats.

+1 letter: southpaw, washouts.

+2 letters: mouthwash, outwashes, southpaws, southward, warmouths, watchouts, watthours.

+3 letters: outwatches, southwards.

+4 letters: mouthwashes, thoughtways, throughways, unseaworthy, whereabouts.