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--n. 11 washing, cleaning, cleansing, scrubbing, scrub,<br />

scouring, shampoo, shampooing, bath, bathing, shower, sponge<br />

bath, tub-bath; laundering; Facetious ablutions; Colloq Brit<br />

tub, tubbing: He always likes a good wash and shave before<br />

breakfast. 12 wave, wake, surge, backwash: The wash from<br />

passing ships almost swamped our skiff. 13 lotion, rinse,<br />

liniment, salve, embrocation, emulsion, preparation; mouthwash,<br />

gargle; eyewash, collyrium: Use this wash twice a day till the<br />

condition disappears. 14 flow, wave, swell, welling, sweep,<br />

sweeping, ebb and flow, surge, surging, undulation, rise and<br />

fall: Shellfish in the gap cleanse themselves of impurities in<br />

the constant tidal wash running through there. 15 coat, coating,<br />

film, overlay, glaze; plating: There is a microscopic wash of<br />

gold over the tin to lend the bracelet a little cachet.<br />

washed out<br />

adj. 1 wan, pale, pallid, colourless, faded, lacklustre, flat;<br />

blanched, bleached, etiolated: Gene looks washed out because he<br />

never gets out in the sun. She was wearing washed-out jeans and<br />

a torn t-shirt. 2 exhausted, spent, tired, tired out, weary,<br />

worn out, fatigued, drained, Colloq dog-tired, bone-tired, done<br />

in, all in, fagged out, bushed, Brit knocked up, US knocked out,<br />

Slang beat, US and Canadian tuckered out, pooped: After a hard<br />

day in the office, I feel completely washed out.<br />

washed up adj. finished, through, failed, done for, played out, over (and<br />

done with), Slang kaput, fini: After that last fiasco, he's no<br />

more than a washed-up has-been.<br />

washout n. failure, disaster, d‚bƒcle, (total) loss, fiasco,<br />

disappointment, Colloq flop, dud, Brit damp squib, US lead<br />

balloon: His attempts to revive the hula-hoop craze were a<br />

washout.<br />

waspish adj. irascible, bad-tempered, foul-tempered, temperamental,<br />

testy, grouchy, sensitive, volatile, querulous, edgy, petulant,<br />

spiteful, peevish, cantankerous, curmudgeonly, cross, crabby,<br />

crabbed, crotchety, splenetic, grumpy, captious, cranky, crusty:<br />

Elaine is feeling very waspish today - no one can do anything<br />

right.<br />

waste<br />

v. 1 squander, misuse, throw away, fritter away, misspend,<br />

splurge, dissipate, Slang blow: Why I wasted so much time on

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