washout.
An act of washing or cleaning the inside of something.
Meaning & usage
An act of washing or cleaning the inside of something.
An appliance designed to wash out the inside of something.
The cistern was fitted with washouts and air-valves.
The erosion of a relatively soft surface by a sudden gush of water; also, a channel produced by this action.
The erosion of a relatively soft surface by a sudden gush of water; also, a channel produced by this action. A breach in a railway or road caused by flooding.
A sporting fixture or other event that cannot be completed because of rain.
An overwhelming victory; a landslide.
A total failure; a disappointment.
An unsuccessful person.
As an actor he was a complete washout, so he went back to accounting.
The aerodynamic effect of a small twist in the shape of an aircraft wing.
A destroyed aeroplane.
A trainee who drops out of a training programme.
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.
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.
a bladder washout
The action whereby falling rainwater cleans particles from the air.
A place in a mine where ore has been washed away by a flow of water.
Where this word comes from
Deverbal from wash out.
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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.