| abash | (verb) cause to be embarrassed; cause to feel self-conscious | Synonyms: embarrass |
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| ash | (noun) any of various deciduous pinnate-leaved ornamental or timber trees of the genus Fraxinus | Synonyms: ash tree |
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| (noun) strong elastic wood of any of various ash trees; used for furniture and tool handles and sporting goods such as baseball bats | - |
| (noun) the residue that remains when something is burned | - |
| (verb) convert into ashes | - |
| awash | (adjective) covered with water | Synonyms: afloat, flooded, inundated, overflowing |
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| backlash | (noun) an adverse reaction to some political or social occurrence | - |
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| (noun) a movement back from an impact | Synonyms: rebound, recoil, repercussion |
| (verb) come back to the originator of an action with an undesired effect | Synonyms: backfire, recoil |
| backwash | (noun) the wave that spreads behind a boat as it moves forward | Synonyms: wake |
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| (noun) the flow of air that is driven backwards by an aircraft propeller | Synonyms: airstream, race, slipstream, wash |
| (noun) the consequences of an event (especially a catastrophic event) | Synonyms: aftermath, wake |
| balderdash | (noun) trivial nonsense | Synonyms: fiddle-faddle, piffle |
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| bash | (noun) a vigorous blow | Synonyms: bang, belt, knock, smash |
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| (noun) an uproarious party | Synonyms: brawl, do |
| (verb) hit hard | Synonyms: bonk, bop, sock, whap, whop |
| blackwash | (noun) a wash that colors a surface black | - |
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| (noun) a mixture of calomel and limewater that is used on syphilitic sores | Synonyms: black lotion |
| (noun) an attack intended to ruin someone's reputation | Synonyms: assassination, character assassination |
| (verb) color with blackwash | - |
| (verb) bring (information) out of concealment | - |
| brainwash | (verb) submit to brainwashing; indoctrinate forcibly | - |
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| (verb) persuade completely, often through coercion | - |
| brash | (adjective) offensively bold | Synonyms: cheeky, nervy |
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| calabash | (noun) bottle made from the dried shell of a bottle gourd | Synonyms: gourd |
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| (noun) a pipe for smoking; has a curved stem and a large bowl made from a calabash gourd | Synonyms: calabash pipe |
| (noun) tropical American evergreen that produces large round gourds | Synonyms: calabash tree, Crescentia cujete |
| (noun) round gourd of the calabash tree | - |
| (noun) Old World climbing plant with hard-shelled bottle-shaped gourds as fruits | Synonyms: bottle gourd, Lagenaria siceraria |
| calash | (noun) the folding hood of a horse-drawn carriage | Synonyms: calash top, caleche |
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| (noun) a woman's large folded hooped hood; worn in the 18th century | Synonyms: caleche |
| camash | (noun) any of several plants of the genus Camassia; North and South America | Synonyms: camas, camass, camosh, quamash |
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| cash | (noun) money in the form of bills or coins | Synonyms: hard cash, hard currency |
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| (noun) prompt payment for goods or services in currency or by check | Synonyms: immediate payment |
| (verb) exchange for cash | Synonyms: cash in |
| clash | (noun) a minor short-term fight | Synonyms: brush, encounter, skirmish |
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| (noun) a loud resonant repeating noise | Synonyms: clang, clangor, clangoring, clangour, clank, crash |
| (noun) a state of conflict between persons | Synonyms: friction |
| (noun) a state of conflict between colors | - |
| (verb) disagree violently | - |
| (verb) crash together with violent impact | Synonyms: collide |
| (verb) be incompatible; be or come into conflict | Synonyms: collide, jar |
| crash | (noun) the act of colliding with something | Synonyms: smash |
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| (noun) a serious accident (usually involving one or more vehicles) | Synonyms: wreck |
| (noun) a loud resonant repeating noise | Synonyms: clang, clangor, clangoring, clangour, clank, clash |
| (noun) a sudden large decline of business or the prices of stocks (especially one that causes additional failures) | Synonyms: collapse |
| (noun) (computer science) an event that causes a computer system to become inoperative | - |
| (verb) sleep in a convenient place | Synonyms: doss, doss down |
| (verb) stop operating | Synonyms: go down |
| (verb) undergo a sudden and severe downturn | - |
| (verb) undergo damage or destruction on impact | Synonyms: ram |
| (verb) break violently or noisily; smash | Synonyms: break apart, break up |
| (verb) cause to crash | - |
| (verb) hurl or thrust violently | Synonyms: dash |
| (verb) enter uninvited; informal | Synonyms: barge in, gate-crash |
| (verb) move with, or as if with, a crashing noise | - |
| (verb) fall or come down violently | - |
| (verb) move violently as through a barrier | - |
| (verb) make a sudden loud sound | - |
| (verb) occupy, usually uninvited | - |
| dash | (noun) a quick run | Synonyms: sprint |
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| (noun) the act of moving with great haste | Synonyms: bolt |
| (noun) distinctive and stylish elegance | Synonyms: elan, flair, panache, style |
| (noun) the longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code | Synonyms: dah |
| (noun) a punctuation mark (-) used between parts of a compound word or between the syllables of a word when the word is divided at the end of a line of text | Synonyms: hyphen |
| (noun) a footrace run at top speed | - |
| (verb) break into pieces, as by striking or knocking over | Synonyms: smash |
| (verb) add an enlivening or altering element to | - |
| (verb) hurl or thrust violently | Synonyms: crash |
| (verb) cause to lose courage; to be daunted; to be scared away | Synonyms: daunt, frighten away, frighten off, pall, scare, scare away, scare off |
| (verb) run or move very quickly or hastily | Synonyms: dart, flash, scoot, scud, shoot |
| (verb) destroy or break | - |
| eyelash | (noun) any of the short curved hairs that grow from the edges of the eyelids | Synonyms: cilium, lash |
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| eyewash | (noun) lotion consisting of a solution used as a cleanser for the eyes | Synonyms: collyrium, eye-lotion |
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| flash | (adjective) tastelessly showy | Synonyms: brassy, cheap, flashy, garish, gaudy, gimcrack, loud, meretricious, tacky, tatty, tawdry, trashy |
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| (noun) a lamp for providing momentary light to take a photograph | Synonyms: flash bulb, flash lamp, flashbulb, flashgun, photoflash |
| (noun) a bright patch of color used for decoration or identification | - |
| (noun) a momentary brightness | - |
| (noun) a sudden brilliant understanding | - |
| (noun) a short news announcement concerning some on-going news story | Synonyms: news bulletin, newsbreak, newsflash |
| (noun) a burst of light used to communicate or illuminate | Synonyms: flare |
| (noun) a gaudy outward display | Synonyms: fanfare, ostentation |
| (noun) a sudden intense burst of radiant energy | - |
| (noun) a short vivid experience | Synonyms: flashing |
| (noun) a very short time (as the time it takes the eye to blink or the heart to beat) | Synonyms: blink of an eye, heartbeat, instant, jiffy, New York minute, split second, trice, twinkling, wink |
| (verb) appear briefly | - |
| (verb) emit a brief burst of light | - |
| (verb) make known or cause to appear with great speed | - |
| (verb) protect by covering with a thin sheet of metal | - |
| (verb) run or move very quickly or hastily | Synonyms: dart, dash, scoot, scud, shoot |
| (verb) gleam or glow intermittently | Synonyms: blink, twinkle, wink, winkle |
| (verb) display proudly; act ostentatiously or pretentiously | Synonyms: flaunt, ostentate, show off, swank |
| (verb) expose or show briefly | - |
| gash | (noun) a strong sweeping cut made with a sharp instrument | Synonyms: slash |
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| (noun) a trench resembling a furrow that was made by erosion or excavation | Synonyms: cut |
| (noun) a wound made by cutting | Synonyms: cut, slash, slice |
| (verb) cut open | Synonyms: slash |
| gnash | (verb) grind together, of teeth | - |
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| goulash | (noun) a rich meat stew highly seasoned with paprika | Synonyms: gulyas, Hungarian goulash |
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| handwash | (verb) wash or launder by hand instead of with a machine | Synonyms: hand-wash |
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| hash | (noun) purified resinous extract of the hemp plant; used as a hallucinogen | Synonyms: haschisch, hasheesh, hashish |
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| (noun) chopped meat mixed with potatoes and browned | - |
| (verb) chop up | - |
| hogwash | (noun) unacceptable behavior (especially ludicrously false statements) | Synonyms: buncombe, bunk, bunkum, guff, rot |
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| lash | (noun) a quick blow delivered with a whip or whiplike object | Synonyms: whip, whiplash |
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| (noun) leather strip that forms the flexible part of a whip | Synonyms: thong |
| (noun) any of the short curved hairs that grow from the edges of the eyelids | Synonyms: cilium, eyelash |
| (verb) strike as if by whipping | Synonyms: whip |
| (verb) beat severely with a whip or rod | Synonyms: flog, lather, slash, strap, trounce, welt, whip |
| (verb) bind with a rope, chain, or cord | - |
| (verb) lash or flick about sharply | - |
| leash | (noun) a figurative restraint | Synonyms: collar |
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| (noun) restraint consisting of a rope (or light chain) used to restrain an animal | Synonyms: lead, tether |
| (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one and one | Synonyms: 3, deuce-ace, III, tercet, ternary, ternion, terzetto, three, threesome, tierce, trey, triad, trine, trinity, trio, triplet, troika |
| (verb) fasten with a rope | Synonyms: rope |
| mash | (noun) mixture of ground animal feeds | - |
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| (noun) a mixture of mashed malt grains and hot water; used in brewing | - |
| (verb) reduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading | Synonyms: bray, comminute, crunch, grind |
| (verb) talk or behave amorously, without serious intentions | Synonyms: butterfly, chat up, coquet, coquette, dally, flirt, philander, romance |
| (verb) to compress with violence, out of natural shape or condition | Synonyms: crush, squash, squeeze, squelch |
| mishmash | (noun) a motley assortment of things | Synonyms: farrago, gallimaufry, hodgepodge, hotchpotch, melange, mingle-mangle, oddments, odds and ends, omnium-gatherum, ragbag |
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| mouthwash | (noun) a medicated solution used for gargling and rinsing the mouth | Synonyms: gargle |
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| musquash | (noun) beaver-like aquatic rodent of North America with dark glossy brown fur | Synonyms: muskrat, Ondatra zibethica |
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| newsflash | (noun) a short news announcement concerning some on-going news story | Synonyms: flash, news bulletin, newsbreak |
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| photoflash | (noun) a lamp for providing momentary light to take a photograph | Synonyms: flash, flash bulb, flash lamp, flashbulb, flashgun |
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| pigwash | (noun) wet feed (especially for pigs) consisting of mostly kitchen waste mixed with water or skimmed or sour milk | Synonyms: pigswill, slop, slops, swill |
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| plash | (noun) the sound like water splashing | Synonyms: splash |
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| (verb) dash a liquid upon or against | Synonyms: spatter, splash, splatter, splosh, swash |
| (verb) interlace the shoots of | Synonyms: pleach |
| potash | (noun) a potassium compound often used in agriculture and industry | Synonyms: caustic potash, potassium hydroxide |
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| powerwash | (verb) wash before painting to remove old paint and mildew | Synonyms: pressure-wash |
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| quamash | (noun) any of several plants of the genus Camassia; North and South America | Synonyms: camas, camash, camass, camosh |
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| quash | (verb) put down by force or intimidation | Synonyms: keep down, reduce, repress, subdue, subjugate |
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| (verb) declare invalid | Synonyms: annul, avoid, invalidate, nullify, void |
| rash | (adjective) marked by defiant disregard for danger or consequences | Synonyms: foolhardy, heady, reckless |
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| (adjective) imprudently incurring risk | - |
| (noun) a series of unexpected and unpleasant occurrences | Synonyms: blizzard |
| (noun) any red eruption of the skin | Synonyms: efflorescence, roseola, skin rash |
| rehash | (noun) old material that is slightly reworked and used again | - |
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| (verb) go back over | Synonyms: hash over, retrograde |
| (verb) present or use over, with no or few changes | - |
| sash | (noun) a framework that holds the panes of a window in the window frame | Synonyms: window sash |
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| (noun) a band of material around the waist that strengthens a skirt or trousers | Synonyms: cincture, girdle, waistband, waistcloth |
| slapdash | (adjective) marked by great carelessness | Synonyms: haphazard, slipshod, sloppy |
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| (adverb) in a careless or reckless manner | Synonyms: slam-bang |
| (adverb) directly | Synonyms: bang, bolt, slap, smack |
| slash | (noun) a strong sweeping cut made with a sharp instrument | Synonyms: gash |
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| (noun) a punctuation mark (/) used to separate related items of information | Synonyms: diagonal, separatrix, solidus, stroke, virgule |
| (noun) an open tract of land in a forest that is strewn with debris from logging (or fire or wind) | - |
| (noun) a wound made by cutting | Synonyms: cut, gash, slice |
| (verb) cut drastically | - |
| (verb) cut open | Synonyms: gash |
| (verb) cut with sweeping strokes; as with an ax or machete | Synonyms: cut down |
| (verb) beat severely with a whip or rod | Synonyms: flog, lash, lather, strap, trounce, welt, whip |
| (verb) move or stir about violently | Synonyms: convulse, jactitate, thrash, thrash about, thresh, thresh about, toss |
| smash | (noun) the act of colliding with something | Synonyms: crash |
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| (noun) a conspicuous success | Synonyms: bang, hit, smasher, strike |
| (noun) a hard return hitting the tennis ball above your head | Synonyms: overhead |
| (noun) a serious collision (especially of motor vehicles) | Synonyms: smash-up |
| (noun) a vigorous blow | Synonyms: bang, bash, belt, knock |
| (adverb) with a loud crash | Synonyms: smashingly |
| (verb) break into pieces, as by striking or knocking over | Synonyms: dash |
| (verb) break suddenly into pieces, as from a violent blow | - |
| (verb) overthrow or destroy (something considered evil or harmful) | - |
| (verb) hit with great force | Synonyms: blast, boom, nail |
| (verb) collide or strike violently and suddenly | - |
| (verb) hit (a tennis ball) in a powerful overhead stroke | - |
| (verb) damage or destroy as if by violence | Synonyms: bang up, smash up |
| (verb) humiliate or depress completely | Synonyms: crush |
| (verb) hit violently | - |
| (verb) reduce to bankruptcy | Synonyms: bankrupt, break, ruin |
| splash | (noun) the act of splashing a (liquid) substance on a surface | Synonyms: spatter, spattering, splashing, splattering |
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| (noun) the act of scattering water about haphazardly | Synonyms: splashing |
| (noun) a patch of bright color | - |
| (noun) the sound like water splashing | Synonyms: plash |
| (noun) a small quantity of something moist or liquid | Synonyms: dab, splatter |
| (noun) a prominent or sensational but short-lived news event | Synonyms: stir |
| (verb) dash a liquid upon or against | Synonyms: plash, spatter, splatter, splosh, swash |
| (verb) cause (a liquid) to spatter about, especially with force | Synonyms: splosh, sprinkle |
| (verb) strike and dash about in a liquid | - |
| (verb) soil or stain with a splashed liquid | - |
| (verb) mark or overlay with patches of contrasting color or texture; cause to appear splashed or spattered | - |
| (verb) walk through mud or mire | Synonyms: slop, slosh, splosh, squelch, squish |
| (verb) make a splashing sound | Synonyms: slosh, slush, splosh |
| squash | (noun) a game played in an enclosed court by two or four players who strike the ball with long-handled rackets | Synonyms: squash rackets, squash racquets |
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| (noun) edible fruit of a squash plant; eaten as a vegetable | - |
| (noun) any of numerous annual trailing plants of the genus Cucurbita grown for their fleshy edible fruits | Synonyms: squash vine |
| (verb) to compress with violence, out of natural shape or condition | Synonyms: crush, mash, squeeze, squelch |
| stash | (noun) a secret store of valuables or money | Synonyms: cache, hoard |
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| (verb) save up as for future use | Synonyms: cache, hive up, hoard, lay away, squirrel away |
| stonewash | (verb) wash with stones to achieve a worn appearance | Synonyms: stone-wash |
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| succotash | (noun) fresh corn and lima beans with butter or cream | - |
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| swash | (noun) the movement or sound of water | - |
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| (verb) act in an arrogant, overly self-assured, or conceited manner | Synonyms: bluster, swagger |
| (verb) show off | Synonyms: blow, bluster, boast, brag, gas, gasconade, shoot a line, tout, vaunt |
| (verb) dash a liquid upon or against | Synonyms: plash, spatter, splash, splatter, splosh |
| (verb) make violent, noisy movements | - |
| synchroflash | (noun) a device used in photography to synchronize the peak of a flash with the opening of the camera shutter | - |
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| thrash | (noun) a swimming kick used while treading water | - |
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| (verb) give a thrashing to; beat hard | Synonyms: flail, lam, thresh |
| (verb) beat the seeds out of a grain | Synonyms: thresh |
| (verb) beat thoroughly and conclusively in a competition or fight | Synonyms: bat, clobber, cream, drub, lick |
| (verb) dance the slam dance | Synonyms: mosh, slam, slam dance |
| (verb) move or stir about violently | Synonyms: convulse, jactitate, slash, thrash about, thresh, thresh about, toss |
| (verb) beat so fast that (the heart's) output starts dropping until (it) does not manage to pump out blood at all | - |
| (verb) move data into and out of core rather than performing useful computation | - |
| trash | (noun) an amphetamine derivative (trade name Methedrine) used in the form of a crystalline hydrochloride; used as a stimulant to the nervous system and as an appetite suppressant | Synonyms: chalk, chicken feed, crank, deoxyephedrine, glass, ice, meth, methamphetamine, methamphetamine hydrochloride, Methedrine, shabu |
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| (noun) nonsensical talk or writing | Synonyms: applesauce, codswallop, folderol, rubbish, tripe, trumpery, wish-wash |
| (noun) worthless people | Synonyms: scum |
| (noun) worthless material that is to be disposed of | Synonyms: rubbish, scrap |
| (verb) express a totally negative opinion of | Synonyms: pan, tear apart |
| (verb) dispose of (something useless or old) | Synonyms: junk, scrap |
| unlash | (verb) untie the lashing of | - |
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| unleash | (verb) release or vent | - |
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| (verb) release from a leash | - |
| (verb) turn loose or free from restraint | Synonyms: let loose, loose |
| wash | (noun) any enterprise in which losses and gains cancel out | - |
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| (noun) the work of cleansing (usually with soap and water) | Synonyms: lavation, washing |
| (noun) garments or white goods that can be cleaned by laundering | Synonyms: laundry, washables, washing |
| (noun) a watercolor made by applying a series of monochrome washes one over the other | Synonyms: wash drawing |
| (noun) a thin coat of water-base paint | - |
| (noun) the dry bed of an intermittent stream (as at the bottom of a canyon) | Synonyms: dry wash |
| (noun) the flow of air that is driven backwards by an aircraft propeller | Synonyms: airstream, backwash, race, slipstream |
| (noun) the erosive process of washing away soil or gravel by water (as from a roadway) | Synonyms: washout |
| (verb) cleanse (one's body) with soap and water | Synonyms: lave |
| (verb) to cleanse (itself or another animal) by licking | - |
| (verb) remove by the application of water or other liquid and soap or some other cleaning agent | Synonyms: wash away, wash off, wash out |
| (verb) make moist | Synonyms: dampen, moisten |
| (verb) wash or flow against | Synonyms: lap, lave |
| (verb) form by erosion | - |
| (verb) wash by removing particles | Synonyms: hush |
| (verb) cleanse with a cleaning agent, such as soap, and water | Synonyms: launder |
| (verb) separate dirt or gravel from (precious minerals) | - |
| (verb) clean with some chemical process | Synonyms: rinse |
| (verb) apply a thin coating of paint, metal, etc., to | - |
| (verb) move by or as if by water | - |
| (verb) be capable of being washed | - |
| (verb) admit to testing or proof | - |
| whiplash | (noun) a quick blow delivered with a whip or whiplike object | Synonyms: lash, whip |
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| (noun) an injury to the neck (the cervical vertebrae) resulting from rapid acceleration or deceleration (as in an automobile accident) | Synonyms: whiplash injury |
| whitelash | (noun) backlash by white racists against black civil rights advances | Synonyms: white backlash |
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| whitewash | (noun) a specious or deceptive clearing that attempts to gloss over failings and defects | - |
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| (noun) wash consisting of lime and size in water; used for whitening walls and other surfaces | - |
| (noun) a defeat in which the losing person or team fails to score | - |
| (verb) exonerate by means of a perfunctory investigation or through biased presentation of data | - |
| (verb) cover with whitewash | - |
| (verb) cover up a misdemeanor, fault, or error | Synonyms: gloss over, hush up, sleek over |