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washout

Pronunciation: /ˈwɒʃaʊt/

The English word “washout” has 15 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. An act of washing or cleaning the inside of something.
  2. An appliance designed to wash out the inside of something.
  3. The erosion of a relatively soft surface by a sudden gush of water; also, a channel produced by this action.
  4. A breach in a railway or road caused by flooding.
  5. A sporting fixture or other event that cannot be completed because of rain.
  6. An overwhelming victory; a landslide.
  7. A total failure; a disappointment.
  8. An unsuccessful person.
  9. The aerodynamic effect of a small twist in the shape of an aircraft wing.
  10. A destroyed aeroplane.
  11. A trainee who drops out of a training programme.
  12. A period between clinical treatments in which any medication delivered as the first treatment is allowed to be eliminated from a person's body before the second treatment begins.
  13. The cleaning of matter from a physiological system using a fluid; also, the fluid used for such cleaning; or the matter cleaned out from the system.
  14. The action whereby falling rainwater cleans particles from the air.
  15. A place in a mine where ore has been washed away by a flow of water.

Etymology

Deverbal from wash out.

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