Wash is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for WASH in dictionary:

VERB:
• to cleanse in liquid
• clean with water and, typically, soap or detergent
• clean oneself with soap and water
• (with reference to a stain or dirt) remove or be removed by cleaning with water and detergent
• (of fabric, a garment, or dye) withstand cleaning to a specified degree without shrinking or fading
• wet or moisten (something) thoroughly
• (of flowing water) carry (someone or something) in a particular direction
• be carried by flowing water
• (especially of waves) sweep or splash in a particular direction
• (of a river, sea, or lake) flow through or lap against (a country, coast, etc.)
• sift metallic particles from (earth or gravel) by running water through it
• brush with a thin coat of dilute paint or ink
• coat inferior metal with (a film of gold or silver from a solution)
• seem convincing or genuine
• clean (oneself, clothes, etc) with water and usu soap
• To cleanse by ablution, or dipping or rubbing in water; to apply water or other liquid to for the purpose of cleansing; to scrub with water, etc., or as with water; as, to wash the hands or body; to wash garments; to wash sheep or wool; to wash the pavement or floor; to wash the bark of trees.
• To cover with water or any liquid; to wet; to fall on and moisten; hence, to overflow or dash against; as, waves wash the shore.
• To waste or abrade by the force of water in motion; as, heavy rains wash a road or an embankment.
• To remove by washing to take away by, or as by, the action of water; to drag or draw off as by the tide; -- often with away, off, out, etc.; as, to wash dirt from the hands.
• To cover with a thin or watery coat of color; to tint lightly and thinly.
• To overlay with a thin coat of metal; as, steel washed with silver.
• To perform the act of ablution.
• To clean anything by rubbing or dipping it in water; to perform the business of cleansing clothes, ore, etc., in water.
• To bear without injury the operation of being washed; as, some calicoes do not wash.
• To be wasted or worn away by the action of water, as by a running or overflowing stream, or by the dashing of the sea; -- said of road, a beach, etc.
• clean with some chemical process
• cleanse (one\'s body) with soap and water
• cleanse with a cleaning agent, such as soap, and water
• move by or as if by water
• be capable of being washed
• admit to testing or proof
• separate dirt or gravel from (precious minerals)
• apply a thin coating of paint, metal, etc., to
• remove by the application of water or other liquid and soap or some other cleaning agent
• form by erosion
• make moist
• wash or flow against
• to cleanse (itself or another animal) by licking
• do one's laundry
NOUN:
• an act of washing something or an instance of being washed
• a quantity of clothes needing to be or just having been washed
• the water or air disturbed by a moving boat or aircraft
• the breaking of waves on a shore
• an inlet of the North Sea on the east coast of England between Norfolk and Lincolnshire.
• a medicinal or cleansing solution
• a layer of paint or metal spread thinly on a surface
• silt or gravel carried by a stream or river and deposited as sediment.
• a sandbank exposed only at low tide.
• kitchen slops and other food waste fed to pigs.
• malt fermenting in preparation for distillation.
• a situation or result that is of no benefit to either of two opposing sides
• The act of washing; an ablution; a cleansing, wetting, or dashing with water; hence, a quantity, as of clothes, washed at once.
• A piece of ground washed by the action of a sea or river, or sometimes covered and sometimes left dry; the shallowest part of a river, or arm of the sea; also, a bog; a marsh; a fen; as, the washes in Lincolnshire.
• Substances collected and deposited by the action of water; as, the wash of a sewer, of a river, etc.
• Waste liquid, the refuse of food, the collection from washed dishes, etc., from a kitchen, often used as food for pigs.
• The fermented wort before the spirit is extracted.
• A mixture of dunder, molasses, water, and scummings, used in the West Indies for distillation.
• That with which anything is washed, or wetted, smeared, tinted, etc., upon the surface.
• A liquid cosmetic for the complexion.
• A liquid dentifrice.
• A liquid preparation for the hair; as, a hair wash.
• A medical preparation in a liquid form for external application; a lotion.
• A thin coat of color, esp. water color.
• A thin coat of metal laid on anything for beauty or preservation.
• The blade of an oar, or the thin part which enters the water.
• The backward current or disturbed water caused by the action of oars, or of a steamer\'s screw or paddles, etc.
• The flow, swash, or breaking of a body of water, as a wave; also, the sound of it.
• Ten strikes, or bushels, of oysters.
• a thin coat of water-base paint
• the work of cleansing (usually with soap and water)
• the dry bed of an intermittent stream (as at the bottom of a canyon)
• the erosive process of washing away soil or gravel by water (as from a roadway)
• the flow of air that is driven backwards by an aircraft propeller
• a watercolor made by applying a series of monochrome washes one over the other
• garments or white goods that can be cleaned by laundering
• any enterprise in which losses and gains cancel out
• act or process of washing
ADJECTIVE:
• Washy; weak.
• Capable of being washed without injury; washable; as, wash goods.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to cleanse by immersing in or applying a liquid

Words related to WASH

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Words that contain WASH

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How to use WASH in a sentence

• Presently, Sarah, the younger of the two, started to her feet, and fled out of the house to wash her hands and face at the river that flowed past.
• Kate had been summoned, and having just appeared, was about to empty a large flower bowl, which Nick had ordered her to wash.
• Just a little sleep and then time to rise and wash and breakfast.
• She came to him and put it down and told him to wash his hands and come and eat his dinner.
• She ran up stairs to wash away the traces of the tears which had been streaming down her face as she went about her work, before she opened the door.
• Then the metal plates are so easy to wash, and so hard to break.
• All day long, she and her mother, who left her wash tub to attend to me, worked over my miserable head.
• After a wash and a meal at the hotel, they strolled over to the livery-stable to inspect the horse that Andover thought of buying.
• The riders disappeared in the bunk-house to wash and make ready for supper.
• Wife, go and get some wine to wash down the contract.
• After the feast everybody has to wash his face and hands, a duty esteemed most important.
• Young Wallace remained with us for a week, asking for nothing, doing everything, even to helping the girls wash dishes.
• I soon found it necessary to wash the little mias as well.
• Come and hear the Christmas pudding singing in the wash boiler.
• Presently the loveliest naked maidens assembled from all quarters, and began to wash themselves in the bright moonlight, while the youth stood behind a bush looking on.
• What good shall I do this day? Rise, wash, and address Powerful Goodness.
• Wash and season your fish well and then wrap them up in clean, fresh grass, leaves or bark.
• Arriving straight from a train journey, he had wanted to wash.
• He promised to take care of her in her old age, and not compel her to labor, so she is only required to cook and wash for a dozen slaves.
• So the ducks set off through the woods and over the fields, and every time they came to a bit of water they swam over it as fast as a cat can wash her face.
• Advantage was taken of the little leisure now allowed us to let the people mend and wash their clothes, which they had scarcely had a moment to do for the last three weeks.

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