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  • 71wash — 1. verb /wɒʃ,wɑʃ,wɔɹʃ/ a) To clean with water. b) To move by the force of water in motion (as in the flood washed away houses). 2. noun /wɒʃ,wɑʃ,wɔɹʃ/ a) The process or an instance of washing or being washed by water or other liquid …

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  • 72wash — {{11}}wash (n.) late O.E. wæsc act of washing (see WASH (Cf. wash) (v.)). Meaning clothes set aside to be washed is attested from 1789; meaning thin coat of paint is recorded from 1690s; sense of land alternately covered and exposed by the sea is …

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  • 73wash — v 1. clean, clean up, bathe, Brit. Inf. tub, lave, cleanse, wash up, scrub up, Chiefly Scot. dight; deterge, launder, do the laundry; shampoo, lather, soap; scrub, brush, swab, mop; soak, shower, douse, rinse, flush, sponge, douche; absterge,… …

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  • 74water-color — noun 1. water soluble pigment • Syn: ↑watercolor, ↑watercolour, ↑water colour • Derivationally related forms: ↑watercolourist (for: ↑watercolour), ↑watercolor …

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  • 75water-colour — noun 1. water soluble pigment • Syn: ↑watercolor, ↑water color, ↑watercolour • Derivationally related forms: ↑watercolourist (for: ↑watercolour), ↑watercolor …

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  • 76wash — {{Roman}}I.{{/Roman}} noun (esp. BrE) ADJECTIVE ▪ good ▪ quick ▪ car (BrE, AmE) VERB + WASH ▪ have ▪ …

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  • 77wash — 1. verb 1) he is washing in the guest bathroom Syn: clean oneself; bathe, take a bath, shower, soak, freshen up; formal perform one s ablutions 2) he washed her socks Syn: clean, cleanse, rinse, launder …

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  • 78wash — [OE] Etymologically, to wash something is probably to clean it with ‘water’. Like German waschen, Dutch wasschen, and Swedish vaska, it goes back to a prehistoric Germanic *waskan, which seems to have been derived from *wat , the base which… …

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  • 79wash — [OE] Etymologically, to wash something is probably to clean it with ‘water’. Like German waschen, Dutch wasschen, and Swedish vaska, it goes back to a prehistoric Germanic *waskan, which seems to have been derived from *wat , the base which… …

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  • 80wash bottle — noun : a bottle or flask provided with one bent tube passing through the stopper for directing a stream of water on anything to be washed or rinsed and with means for forcing (as by blowing into a second tube passing through the stopper or by… …

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