Crossword-Solution: WASHOUT
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Washout | n. | The washing out or away of earth, etc., especially of a portion of the bed of a road or railroad by a fall of rain or a freshet; also, a place, especially in the bed of a road or railroad, where the earth has been washed away. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| WASHOUT | anagram | OUTWASH |
We have 21 clues for the answer “WASHOUT”
| Clue | Answers |
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| the erosive process of washing away soil or gravel by water | 1 answer |
| road erosion after a rain e g | 1 answer |
| road erosion after a rain | 1 answer |
| road erosion | 1 answer |
| Socially colorless one: Slang. | 1 answer |
| Road erosion after a rain, e.g. | 1 answer |
| Result of a flood. | 1 answer |
| Rainy-day road hazard | 1 answer |
| DEAD loss | 1 answer |
| Failure: Slang. | 2 answers |
| Absolute flop | 3 answers |
| Complete flop | 3 answers |
| Total failure | 7 answers |
| Utter failure | 8 answers |
| UNSUCCESSFUL person | 8 answers |
| Complete failure | 9 answers |
| lost labor | 10 answers |
| ABSOLUTE, THE | 11 answers |
| vain attempt | 11 answers |
| lost labour | 13 answers |
| failure | 86 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with WASHOUT (5)
The best thing is to drop into this washout and remain there until they cease to look for us.’ “They did so, and remained hidden during the night.
But it just wasn’t my fate, even that time I rode my engine down to the bottom of a forty-foot washout.
The Kid was so sleepy, and so tired that he almost fell out of the saddle once when Silver, who had been loping easily across a fairly level stretch of ground, slowed abruptly to negotiate a washout crossing.
She did not know it was moated like a castle, with a washout ten feet deep and twice that in width, and that what looked to her quite easy was utterly impossible.
From breakfast until noon he was busy as a beaver repairing the washout beneath the car and on to the top of the hill.
Quotes with WASHOUT (1)
Tonight, however, Dickens struck him in a different light. Beneath the author’s sentimental pity for the weak and helpless, he could discern a revolting pleasure in cruelty and suffering, while the grotesque figures of the people in Cruikshank’s illustrations revealed too clearly the hideous distortions of their souls. What had seemed humorous now appeared diabolic, and in disgust at these two favourites he turned to Walter Pater for the repose and dignity of a classic spirit…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Crossroads, NY Sun, NYT, Universal.
Used 11 times in crossword archives (1959–2009).