Usually means: Cleanse using water and soap.
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We found 65 dictionaries that define the word Wash:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. wash: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. The Wash, Wash, wash: Merriam-Webster
  3. Wash, wash: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. Wash, Wash, wash: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. Wash, wash, the Wash: Collins English Dictionary
  6. wash: Vocabulary.com
  7. Wash, wash: Wordnik
  8. wash, wash (with sb), the wash: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. WASH, Wash, -wash, wash: Wiktionary
  10. wash: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. wash: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. wash: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Wash, wash, the wash: Dictionary.com
  14. wash (n.), wash (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. wash: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. The Wash (song), The Wash (soundtrack), The Wash, The wash, WASH (FM), WASH, Wash (disambiguation), Wash (distilling), Wash (painting), Wash (singer), Wash (visual arts), Wash: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Wash: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. wash: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. wash: Rhymezone
  20. wash: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. wash: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. wash: FreeDictionary.org
  23. wash: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. Wash, Wash: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. wash: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. wash: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. Epicurus.com Spanish Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Epicurus.com Spirits Glossary (No longer online)
  4. Wash: Art Glossary: Terminology for artists
  5. Technical Glossary of Theatre Terms (No longer online)
  6. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)
  7. WASH: Glossary of Art Terms

Business (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  3. Wash: bizterms.net
  4. Wash: Bloomberg Financial Glossary
  5. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  6. Wash: Investopedia
  7. wash: Legal dictionary
  8. Wash: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Wash, wash: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. wash: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Wash: MedFriendly Glossary
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. wash: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. WASH: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  3. wash: Idioms

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. Bird On! (No longer online)

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. wash, wash, wash: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Wash: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade
  3. w'ash, wash, the wash: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Wash: Backgammon

Tech (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. Wash: GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS, CARTOGRAPHY, AND REMOTE SENSING
  2. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  3. Happy Hour Spirit & Liqueur Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Glossary of Common Hearth and Heating Terms (No longer online)
  5. The Stamp Store Glossary (concrete) (No longer online)
  6. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  7. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  8. Wash: Latitude Mexico

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Definitions from Wiktionary (WASH)

verb:  To clean with water.
verb:  (transitive) To move or erode by the force of water in motion.
verb:  (mining) To separate valuable material (such as gold) from worthless material by the action of flowing water.
verb:  (intransitive) To clean oneself with water.
verb:  (transitive) To cover with water or any liquid; to wet; to fall on and moisten.
verb:  (intransitive) To move with a lapping or swashing sound; to lap or splash.
verb:  (intransitive) To be eroded or carried away by the action of water.
verb:  (intransitive, figuratively) To be cogent, convincing; to withstand critique.
verb:  (intransitive) To bear without injury the operation of being washed.
verb:  (intransitive) 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.
verb:  To cover with a thin or watery coat of colour; to tint lightly and thinly.
verb:  To overlay with a thin coat of metal.
verb:  (transitive) To cause dephosphorization of (molten pig iron) by adding substances containing iron oxide, and sometimes manganese oxide.
verb:  (transitive) To pass (a gas or gaseous mixture) through or over a liquid for the purpose of purifying it, especially by removing soluble constituents.
noun:  The process or an instance of washing or being washed by water or other liquid.
noun:  A liquid used for washing.
noun:  A lotion or other liquid with medicinal or hygienic properties.
noun:  The quantity of clothes washed at a time.
noun:  (art) A smooth and translucent painting created using a paintbrush holding a large amount of solvent and a small amount of paint.
noun:  The breaking of waves on the shore; the onwards rush of shallow water towards a beach.
noun:  The bow wave, wake, or vortex of an object moving in a fluid, in particular:
noun:  The bow wave or wake of a moving ship, or the vortex from its screws.
noun:  The turbulence left in the air by a moving airplane.
noun:  The backward current or disturbed water caused by the action of oars, or of a steamer's screw or paddles, etc.
noun:  (nautical) The blade of an oar.
noun:  Ground washed away to the sea or a river.
noun:  A piece of ground washed by the action of water, or sometimes covered and sometimes left dry; the shallowest part of a river, or arm of the sea; also, a bog; a marsh.
noun:  A shallow body of water.
noun:  In arid and semi-arid regions, the normally dry bed of an intermittent or ephemeral stream; an arroyo or wadi.
noun:  A situation in which losses and gains or advantages and disadvantages are equivalent; a situation in which there is no net change.
noun:  (finance, slang) A fictitious kind of sale of stock or other securities between parties of one interest, or by a broker who is both buyer and seller, and who minds his own interest rather than that of his clients.
noun:  Waste liquid, the refuse of food, the collection from washed dishes, etc., from a kitchen, often used as food for pigs; pigwash.
noun:  In distilling, the fermented wort before the spirit is extracted.
noun:  A mixture of dunder, molasses, water, and scummings, used in the West Indies for distillation.
noun:  A thin coat of paint or metal laid on anything for beauty or preservation.
noun:  Ten strikes, or bushels, of oysters.
noun:  (architecture) The upper surface of a member or material when given a slope to shed water; hence, a structure or receptacle shaped so as to receive and carry off water.
noun:  (television) A lighting effect that fills a scene with a chosen colour.
noun:  (stagecraft) A lighting fixture that can cast a wide beam of light to evenly fill an area with light, as opposed to a spotlight.
noun:  (with the) An estuary of great ecological importance in eastern England.
noun:  A diminutive of the male given name Washington.
noun:  Acronym of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene. [A barangay of Baco, Oriental Mindoro, Philippines]

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