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washout

noun

1 washout

The channel or break produced by erosion of relatively soft soil by water.

Roget 162: destruction; waste, dissolution, breaking up; diruption, disruption; consumption; disorganization.    fall, downfall, devastation, ruin, perdition, crash; ... show more

Roget 348: running water.    jet, spirt, spurt, squirt, spout, spray, splash, rush, gush, jet d'eau [Fr.]; sluice.    water spout, water fall; ... show more

2 washout

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: wash.

3 washout

Someone who is unsuccessful.

synonyms: dud, flop.


Moby thesaurus: ablution, airmanship, alluvion, alluvium, also-ran, bankrupt, bollix, bomb, botch, breakdown, breaking up, breakup, brief, briefing, bungle, bust, cataclysm, catastrophe, cave, cave-in ... show more.

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