wash

wash · verb

imported

Definitions

verb

  1. 1.

    To clean with water and typically soap or detergent.

  2. 2.

    (Of water) To flow over something.

  3. 3.

    To be carried by water in a particular direction.

  4. 4.

    (Informal) To seem acceptable or believable.

  5. 5.

    An act of washing something.

  6. 6.

    A quantity of clothes washed or to be washed.

  7. 7.

    The disturbed water left by a moving boat.

Related words

Antonyms: dirty, soil
See also: clean, laundry, rinse
Synonyms: bathe, clean, rinse, scrub

Etymology

From Old English wascan, from Proto-Germanic waskaną. Related to German waschen and Dutch wassen.