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Crossword-Solution: WASH 4 letters, 263 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

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Word Word Type Definition
Wash v. t. To cleanse by ablution, or dipping or rubbing in water; to
apply water or other liquid to for the purpose of cleansing; to scrub
with water, etc., or as with water; as, to wash the hands or body; to
wash garments; to wash sheep or wool; to wash the pavement or floor; to
wash the bark of trees.
Wash v. t. To cover with water or any liquid; to wet; to fall on and
moisten; hence, to overflow or dash against; as, waves wash the shore.
Wash v. t. To waste or abrade by the force of water in motion; as,
heavy rains wash a road or an embankment.
Wash v. t. To remove by washing to take away by, or as by, the action
of water; to drag or draw off as by the tide; -- often with away, off,
out, etc.; as, to wash dirt from the hands.
Wash v. t. To cover with a thin or watery coat of color; to tint
lightly and thinly.
Wash v. t. To overlay with a thin coat of metal; as, steel washed
with silver.
Wash v. i. To perform the act of ablution.
Wash v. i. To clean anything by rubbing or dipping it in water; to
perform the business of cleansing clothes, ore, etc., in water.
Wash v. i. To bear without injury the operation of being washed; as,
some calicoes do not wash.
Wash v. i. To be wasted or worn away by the action of water, as by a
running or overflowing stream, or by the dashing of the sea; -- said of
road, a beach, etc.
Wash n. The act of washing; an ablution; a cleansing, wetting, or
dashing with water; hence, a quantity, as of clothes, washed at once.
Wash n. A piece of ground washed by the action of a sea or river, or
sometimes covered and sometimes left dry; the shallowest part of a
river, or arm of the sea; also, a bog; a marsh; a fen; as, the washes
in Lincolnshire.
Wash n. Substances collected and deposited by the action of water;
as, the wash of a sewer, of a river, etc.
Wash n. Waste liquid, the refuse of food, the collection from washed
dishes, etc., from a kitchen, often used as food for pigs.
Wash n. The fermented wort before the spirit is extracted.
Wash n. A mixture of dunder, molasses, water, and scummings, used in
the West Indies for distillation.
Wash n. That with which anything is washed, or wetted, smeared,
tinted, etc., upon the surface.
Wash n. A liquid cosmetic for the complexion.
Wash n. A liquid dentifrice.
Wash n. A liquid preparation for the hair; as, a hair wash.
Wash n. A medical preparation in a liquid form for external
application; a lotion.
Wash n. A thin coat of color, esp. water color.
Wash n. A thin coat of metal laid on anything for beauty or
preservation.
Wash n. The blade of an oar, or the thin part which enters the water.
Wash n. The backward current or disturbed water caused by the action
of oars, or of a steamer's screw or paddles, etc.
Wash n. The flow, swash, or breaking of a body of water, as a wave;
also, the sound of it.
Wash n. Ten strikes, or bushels, of oysters.
Wash a. Washy; weak.
Wash a. Capable of being washed without injury; washable; as, wash
goods.

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Word Anagrams
WASH anagram HAWS, SHAW, SHWA, WAHS

We have 263 clues for the answer “WASH”

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Clean with water and soap 1 answer
"At the car ___" 1 answer
"___ ME" (phrase written on dirty cars) 1 answer
Appear correct, as a theory 1 answer
Basketful, perhaps 1 answer
Bay of the North Sea (with "The"). 1 answer
Boat's wake 1 answer
Break-even enterprise 1 answer
Break-even proposition 1 answer
Break-even situation 1 answer
Break-even transaction 1 answer
Break-even venture 1 answer
Broad stroke of water color. 1 answer
Car ___ (coupe cleaner) 1 answer
Car ___ (waxing site) 1 answer
Clean things up 1 answer
Clean with soap 1 answer
Clean with soap and water 1 answer
Clothes to clean 1 answer
Clothesline load 1 answer
Coat thinly 1 answer
Common load 1 answer
Creed "___ Away Those Years" 1 answer
Do a Monday job 1 answer
Do a traditional Monday chore 1 answer
Do laundry 1 answer
Do, as dishes 1 answer
Draw, colloquially 1 answer
Drawers on a line, e.g. 1 answer
Dry riverbed of West 1 answer
Enterprise whose participants break even 1 answer
Even outcome 1 answer
Evergreen State: Abbr. 1 answer
Fab place? 1 answer
First back ender 1 answer
Fluvial channel 1 answer
Follower of car or hog 1 answer
Follower of hand, mouth, or brain 1 answer
Get ready for dinner, with "up" 1 answer
Get the grime off 1 answer
Get tough on grime? 1 answer
Gov. Langlie's state: Abbr. 1 answer
Grime fighter's job 1 answer
Hamper heap 1 answer
Hamper load 1 answer
Has now left, but not before a bath 1 answer
Is no longer hot in thin coat 1 answer
It dries on the line 1 answer
It gets hung out to dry 1 answer
It is often hampered? 1 answer
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
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Sentences with WASH (5)

Yet not the more Cease I to wander where the Muses haunt Cleer Spring, or shadie Grove, or Sunnie Hill, Smit with the love of sacred song; but chief Thee _Sion_ and the flowrie Brooks beneath That wash thy hallowd feet, and warbling flow, Nightly I visit: nor somtimes forget Those other two equal’d with me in Fate, So were I equal’d with them in renown, Blind _Thamyris_ and blind _Maeonides_, And _Tiresias_ and _Phineus_ Prophets old.
Paradise Lost John Milton 1991
She took me in and showed me the thing, and she told me it was impossible to wash yourself clean in it, because, in so much water, you could not make a strong suds.
O Pioneers! Willa Cather 1991
Most grave and reverend senators of Thebes, What Deeds ye soon must hear, what sights behold How will ye mourn, if, true-born patriots, Ye reverence still the race of Labdacus! Not Ister nor all Phasis’ flood, I ween, Could wash away the blood-stains from this house, The ills it shrouds or soon will bring to light, Ills wrought of malice, not unwittingly.
The Oedipus Trilogy Sophocles 2000
This pantry opened into a kind of wash-up kitchen, and in this was firewood; there was also a cupboard, in which we found nearly a dozen of burgundy, tinned soups and salmon, and two tins of biscuits.
The War of the Worlds H. G. Wells 1992
Many drive incredibly decrepit heaps and forget to wash them; richer ones drive spiffy Porsches and RX-7s and then forget to have them washed.
The Jargon File, Version 2.9.10, 01 Jul 1992 Various 1992

Quotes with WASH (3)

Marie, let’s suppose that two firemen go into a forest to put out a small fire. Afterwards, when they emerge and go over to a stream, the face of one is all smeared with black, while the other man’s face is completely clean. My question is this: which of the two will wash his face? That’s a silly question. The one with the dirty face of course.’ No, the one with the dirty face will look at the other man and assume that he looks like him. And, vice versa, the man with the clea…
Paulo Coelho The Zahir
A little later, Sherri went to get the laundry. She had to go down to the wash house and sought it. She needed to get clean bed clothes for the beds. When she came ‘round the corner, she ran into Master Lee. “Master Lee, I thought you was gone.” “I’m back Sherri.” He looked down at her. Still holding her arms. Sensing not exactly her discomfort, but an uncomfortable nature, he let her go, carefully.
Cindy Burrows
T is not too late to seek a newer world. Push off, and sitting well in order smite The sounding furrows; for my purpose holds To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths Of all the western stars, until I die. It may be that the gulfs will wash us down: It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles, And see the great Achilles, whom we knew. Tho’ much is taken, much abides; and tho’We are not now that strength which in old days Mov’d earth and heaven, that which we are, we are: One equ…
Alfred Tennyson Ulysses
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, Daily Beast, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, Rock & Roll, Slate, The Atlantic, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 294 times in crossword archives (1947–2025).