wash
wash · verb
Definitions
verb
- 1.
To clean with water and typically soap or detergent.
- 2.
(Of water) To flow over something.
- 3.
To be carried by water in a particular direction.
- 4.
(Informal) To seem acceptable or believable.
- 5.
An act of washing something.
- 6.
A quantity of clothes washed or to be washed.
- 7.
The disturbed water left by a moving boat.
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Etymology
From Old English wascan, from Proto-Germanic waskaną. Related to German waschen and Dutch wassen.