Synonyms for wash

noun

• the erosive process of washing away soil or gravel by water (as from a roadway)
• the flow of air that is driven backwards by an aircraft propeller
• garments or white goods that can be cleaned by laundering
• the work of cleansing (usually with soap and water)
• the dry bed of an intermittent stream (as at the bottom of a canyon)
• a watercolor made by applying a series of monochrome washes one over the other
• any enterprise in which losses and gains cancel out
• a thin coat of water-base paint

verb

• make moist
• cleanse with a cleaning agent, such as soap, and water
• remove by the application of water or other liquid and soap or some other cleaning agent
• wash or flow against
• clean with some chemical process
• cleanse (one's body) with soap and water
• admit to testing or proof
• apply a thin coating of paint, metal, etc., to
• be capable of being washed
• form by erosion
• move by or as if by water
• separate dirt or gravel from (precious minerals)
• to cleanse (itself or another animal) by licking