A thin coat of water-base paint.

Roget 428: color, hue, tint, tinge, dye, complexion, shade, tincture, cast, livery, coloration, glow, flush; tone, key.    pure color, positive color, primary color, primitive complementary color; three primaries; spectrum, chromatic dispersion; broken color, secondary color, tertiary color.    local color, coloring, keeping, tone, value, aerial perspective.    [Science of color] chromatics, spectrum analysis, spectroscopy; chromatism^†, chromatography^†, chromatology^†.    [instruments to measure color] prism, spectroscope, spectrograph, spectrometer, colorimeter (optical instruments) 445.    pigment, coloring matter, paint, dye, wash, distemper, stain; medium; mordant; oil paint etc. (painting) 556.    ... show more

Roget 345: marsh, swamp, morass, marish^†, moss, fen, bog, quagmire, slough, sump, wash; mud, squash, slush; baygall [U.S.], cienaga^†, jhil^†, vlei^†.    ... show more

The work of cleansing (usually with soap and water).

synonyms: lavation, washing.

Roget 652: cleanness, cleanliness etc. adj.; purity; cleaning etc. v.; purification, defecation etc. v.; purgation, lustration^†; detersion^†, abstersion^†; epuration^†, mundation^†; ablution, lavation^†, colature^†; disinfection etc. v.; drainage, sewerage.    lavatory, laundry, washhouse^†; washerwoman, laundress, dhobi^†, laundryman, washerman^†; scavenger, dustman^†, sweep; white wings brush [U.S.]; broom, besom^†, mop, rake, shovel, sieve, riddle, screen, filter; blotter.    napkin, cloth, maukin^†, malkin^†, handkerchief, towel, sudary^†; doyley^†, doily, duster, sponge, mop, swab.    cover, drugget^†.    wash, lotion, detergent, cathartic, purgative; purifier etc. v.; disinfectant; aperient^†; benzene, benzine benzol, benolin^†; bleaching powder, chloride of lime, dentifrice, deobstruent^†, laxative.    ... show more

Dutch: lotie, spoelwater, was, wasbeurt, waswater
Polish: mycie

The dry bed of an intermittent stream (as at the bottom of a canyon).

synonym: dry wash.

The erosive process of washing away soil or gravel by water (as from a roadway):
— From the house they watched the washout of their newly seeded lawn by the water.

synonym: washout.

The flow of air that is driven backwards by an aircraft propeller.

synonyms: airstream, backwash, race, slipstream.

A watercolor made by applying a series of monochrome washes one over the other.

synonym: wash drawing.

Garments or white goods that can be cleaned by laundering.

synonyms: laundry, washables, washing.

Dutch: was, wasgoed
Polish: pranie

Any enterprise in which losses and gains cancel out.

Clean with some chemical process.

synonym: rinse.

Roget 556: paint, design, limn draw, sketch, pencil, scratch, shade, stipple, hatch, dash off, chalk out, square up; color, dead color, wash, varnish; draw in pencil etc. n.; paint in oils etc. n.; stencil; depict etc. (represent) 554.    ... show more

Roget 428: color, dye, tinge, stain, tint, tinct^†, paint, wash, ingrain, grain, illuminate, emblazon, bedizen, imbue; paint etc. (fine art) 556.    ... show more

Roget 223: cover; superpose, superimpose; overlay, overspread; wrap etc. 225; encase, incase^†; face, case, veneer, pave, paper; tip, cap, bind; bulkhead, bulkhead in; clapboard [U.S.].    coat, paint, varnish, pay, incrust, stucco, dab, plaster, tar; wash; besmear, bedaub; anoint, do over; gild, plate, japan, lacquer, lacker^†, enamel, whitewash; parget^†; lay it on thick.    overlie, overarch^†; endome^†; conceal etc. 528.    [of aluminum] anodize.    [of steel] galvanize.    ... show more

Cleanse (one's body) with soap and water.

synonym: lave.

Roget 337: be watery etc. adj.; reek.    add water, water, wet; moisten etc. 339; dilute, dip, immerse; merge; immerge, submerge; plunge, souse, duck, drown; soak, steep, macerate, pickle, wash, sprinkle, lave, bathe, affuse^†, splash, swash, douse, drench; dabble, slop, slobber, irrigate, inundate, deluge; syringe, inject, gargle.    ... show more

Cleanse with a cleaning agent, such as soap, and water:
— Wash the towels, please!.

synonym: launder.

Roget 652: be clean, render clean etc. adj.; clean, cleanse; mundify^†, rinse, wring, flush, full, wipe, mop, sponge, scour, swab, scrub, brush up.    wash, lave, launder, buck; absterge^†, deterge^†; decrassify^†; clear, purify; depurate^†, despumate^†, defecate; purge, expurgate, elutriate [Chem], lixiviate^†, edulcorate^†, clarify, refine, rack; filter, filtrate; drain, strain.    disinfect, fumigate, ventilate, deodorize; whitewash; castrate, emasculate.    sift, winnow, pick, weed, comb, rake, brush, sweep.    rout out, clear out, sweep out &c.; make a clean sweep of.    ... show more

Dutch: schoonwassen, wassen

Move by or as if by water.

Be capable of being washed.

Admit to testing or proof.

Separate dirt or gravel from (precious minerals).

Apply a thin coating of paint, metal, etc., to.

Remove by the application of water or other liquid and soap or some other cleaning agent:
— He washed the dirt from his coat.
— The nurse washed away the blood.
— Can you wash away the spots on the windows?.
— He managed to wash out the stains.

synonyms: wash away, wash off, wash out.

Dutch: wegspoelen

Form by erosion.

Make moist.

synonyms: dampen, moisten.

Dutch: bedrukken, bevochtigen

Wash or flow against.

synonyms: lap, lave.

To cleanse (itself or another animal) by licking.