(wosh, wôsh) v.t.
1. To cleanse by immersing in or applying water or other liquid, often with rubbing or scrubbing.
2. To purify from pollution, defilement, or guilt.
3. To wet or cover with water or other liquid.
4. To flow against or over; lave: a beach washed by the ocean.
5. To carry away or remove by the action of water: with away, off, out, etc.
6. To form or wear by erosion: The storm washed gulleys in the hillside.
7. To purify, as gas, by passing through a liquid.
8. To coat with a thin or watery layer of color.
9. To cover with a thin coat of metal.
10. Mining a To subject (gravel, earth, etc.) to the action of water so as to separate the ore, etc. b To separate (ore, etc.) thus.
11. Aeron. To warp.
—v.i.
12. To wash oneself.
13. To wash clothes, etc., in water or other liquid.
14. To withstand the effects of washing: That calico will wash.
15. Brit. Colloq. To undergo testing successfully: That story won't wash.
16. To flow with a lapping sound, as waves.
17. To be carried away or removed by the action of water: with away, off, out, etc.
18. To be eroded by the action of water. See synonyms under CLEANSE, PURIFY.
—to wash out Slang
1. To fail and be dropped from a course, especially in military flight training.
2. To damage (an aircraft) irreparably, especially in landing.
—noun
1. The act or process of washing; cleansing; ablution.
2. A number of articles, as of clothing, set apart for washing or being washed at one time; a washing; laundry.
3. Liquid or semi–liquid refuse; especially, waste food from the kitchen; swill.
4. A preparation used in washing or coating; specifically, a liquid cosmetic or a mouthwash; also, a water–color or India–ink pigment for spreading lightly and evenly on a drawing or picture.
5. The breaking of a body of water upon the shore, or the sound made by waves breaking or surging against a surface; swash.
6. Erosion of soil or earth by the action of rain or running water.
7. Backwash.
8. Aeron. Local air currents set up by the passing of an airplane.
9. An area washed by a sea or river; also, the shallow part of a river or an arm of the sea; a marsh; bog.
10. Material collected and deposited by water, as in the bed of a river or along its banks.
11. U.S. The dry bed of a stream; an arroyo.
12. Fermented liquor ready for the distillery.
—adjective Washable; that may be washed without injury: wash fabrics. [OE wæscan, wascan]

(wosh, wôsh), The
An inlet of the North Sea on the eastern coast of England between Norfolk and Lincolnshire; 20 miles long, 15 miles wide.