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wash

英[wɒʃ] 美[wɑʃ]
  • n. 洗涤;洗的衣服;化妆水;冲积物
  • vt. 洗涤;洗刷;冲走;拍打
  • vi. 洗澡;被冲蚀
  • n. (Wash)人名;(英)沃什;(尼日利)瓦什

英英释意


1. a thin coat of water-base paint
2. the work of cleansing (usually with soap and water)
3. the dry bed of an intermittent stream (as at the bottom of a canyon)
4. 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"
5. the flow of air that is driven backwards by an aircraft propeller
6. a watercolor made by applying a series of monochrome washes one over the other
7. garments or white goods that can be cleaned by laundering
8. any enterprise in which losses and gains cancel out;
"at the end of the year the accounting department showed that it was a wash"