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Etymology
From OE. wæscan (cognate with Dutch wassen and German waschen).

Pronunciation
IPA|/w��/ (US) or /w��/ (UK)
SAMPA|/wAS/ (US) or /wQS>/ (UK)
audio|en-us-wash.ogg|Audio (US)
Rhymes: Rhymes:English:-��|-��

Verb
en-verb|wash|es

1. To clean with water.
2. To move by the force of water in motion (as in the flood washed away houses).
3. mining To separate valuable material (such as gold) from worthless material by the action of flowing water.
4. (intransitive) To clean oneself with water.
5. (intransitive) To be eroded or carried away by the action of water.

Translations
trans-top|to clean with water
Albanian: t-|sq|lan|xs=Albanian
Catalan: rentar
Crimean Tatar: cuvmak
Croatian: umiti
Czech: mýt (dishes), prát (laundry)
Danish: vaske
Dutch: t+|nl|wassen
Esperanto: t-|eo|lavi|xs=Esperanto
Finnish: t+|fi|pestä, t-|fi|tiskata, t-|fi|pyykätä
French: t+|fr|laver
German: t+|de|waschen, t+|de|spülen
Greek: �λέν�
Hebrew: �ר��ץ (lirhotz) (1), �ש��ף (lishtof) (1,2)
Hungarian: t+|hu|mos
Icelandic: t+|is|þvo
Irish: t-|ga|nigh|xs=Irish
Italian: t+|it|lavare
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Japanese: �� (���, arau)
Kurdish:

Classical Nahuatl: paca|p�ca
Old English: þw�an (1)
Old High German: dwahan
Old Norse: þvó
Persian: t-|fa|شست�|trshostan|scFAchar|xs=Persian
Rohingya: dúo
Romanian: a sp�la
Romany: thovel
Russian: �� (myt�)
Scottish Gaelic: nigh#Irish|nigh
Spanish: lavar (se)
Swedish: tvätta (sig)
Telugu: �డ��� (kaDugu)
Turkish: yıkamak
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trans-top|to move by the force of water in motion
Finnish: t-|fi|huuhtoa
German: wegspülen
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trans-top|to separate valuable material
Finnish: t-|fi|huuhtoa
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trans-top|to clean oneself
Finnish: t+|fi|peseytyä
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Greek: �λένομαι
Kurdish:

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trans-top|to be eroded
Finnish: t-|fi|huuhtoutua
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Noun
en-noun|washes

1. The process or an instance of washing or being washed by water.
2. The quantity of clothes washed at a time.
3. The sound of breaking of the seas e.g. on the shore.
4. The wake of a moving ship.
5. The turbulence left in the air by a moving airplane.
6. A lotion with medicinal or hygienic properties.

#*Mouthwash

1. Ground washed away to the sea or a river.
2. A shallow body of water.
3. rfv-sense In arid and semi-arid regions, the normally dry bed of an intermittent or ephemeral stream; an arroyo; wadi

#*1997 Stanley Desmond Smith, et al. Physiological Ecology of North American Desert Plants, Nature
#*:In some desert-wash systems (which have been termed �xero-riparian�)
#*1999 Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, A Natural History of the Sonoran Desert
#*:[�] though the wash may carry surface water for only a few hours a year.
#*2005 Le Hayes Pilgrims in the Desert: The Early History of the East Mojave Desert
#*:Rock Spring Wash continues a short distance then joins Watson Wash. Water from Rock Spring comes out of the boulder strewn wash and disappears into the sand

1. A lack of progress or regress; no change

#:His first week at the new job was a wash, since he spent so much time learning the system instead of using it. <!--is there a corresponding verb sense?--No, AFAIK>

trans-top|the normally dry bed of an intermittent or ephemeral stream - a wadi''
French: oeud
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trans-top|lack of progress
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Derived terms
car wash
dishwasher
wash and brushup
washing up
whitewash
all came out in the wash
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