wash

clean with some chemical process

remove by the application of water or other liquid and soap or some other cleaning agent“he washed the dirt from his coat”

cleanse with a cleaning agent, such as soap, and water“Wash the towels, please!”

make moist“The dew moistened the meadows”

wash or flow against“the waves laved the shore”

cleanse (one's body) with soap and water

be capable of being washed“Does this material wash?”

separate dirt or gravel from (precious minerals)

wash by removing particles“Wash ores”

to cleanse (itself or another animal) by licking“The cat washes several times a day”

move by or as if by water“The swollen river washed away the footbridge”

admit to testing or proof“This silly excuse won't wash in traffic court”

apply a thin coating of paint, metal, etc., to

form by erosion“The river washed a ravine into the mountainside”

the flow of air that is driven backwards by an aircraft propeller

garments or white goods that can be cleaned by laundering

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)“from the house they watched the washout of their newly seeded lawn by the water”

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

a thin coat of water-base paint

any enterprise in which losses and gains cancel out“at the end of the year the accounting department showed that it was a wash”