to wash out
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2.0
- phrasal verb
- /wɔʃ aʊt/
:
quitar
- Then he washed out the ice cream container before throwing it away.
Anyhow, if it doesn't work I could just wash it out and try tuning curlers another way.
- Anyhow, if it doesn't work I could just wash it out and try tuning curlers another way.
- She tried, but I had to wash her mouth out with soap by the end of the night.
- So shampoo, wash out, apply this conditioner.
- To my surprise, I ran to the bathroom to wash my hair out.
- And So what you need to do is you need to wash the salt out.
- Turned on the shower and just held his face up to the, the shower head so like we could wash all the crap out of his, his eyes and, and nose.
- Side note, he also would like when we were young, if we said a bad word, we'd get our mouth washed out with soap or we they'd put hot sauce on our tongue.
- But anyway, how long do those antibiotics stay in your body before they're washed out, before they're tagged by your liver and then flushed out by your kidneys?
Examples
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There are some stains you can never wash out.
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And then I go ahead and wash out all of the conditioner in my hair, and my hair ends up feeling really soft and just buttery.
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And then I'll wash out under a shower and then give it a cold shot.
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Next up, we're going to continue to wash out this makeup.
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I think I'll go upstairs and wash out these shells.
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And then using some detergent, we wash out all the cells.
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I washed out the glasses and cleaned off the bottle too.
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You might have to wash it out in between bottles, but you're going to have a real, a real clean finished product.
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I'll wash it out with Ivory soap.
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I need to wash out the stains from my favorite shirt before I wear it again.
Synonyms
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1.0
To remove dirt and stains
941
1.0
To clean something with water, often using soap
433
1.0
To make a room or area free of dirt and tidy by removing mess
83
1.0
To wash something with water to remove soap or dirt
33
3.0
Remove dirt and germs from a person's body by washing
31
1.0
To remove something from a surface by washing with water or soap
28
2.0
To remove something from a surface by moving a cloth over it, like tears or dirt
20
1.0
Remove dirt or marks from a surface by rubbing with a cloth
18
3.7
To clean a surface, wound, or tool with chemicals to kill germs
11
3.7
Make something clean and free from bacteria
10
1.6
To wash something with water to remove soap or dirt
8
1.8
To clean a surface using a cloth or towel to remove a spill
5
2.6
To remove liquid or dirt from a floor with a cloth
3
3.2
Remove dirt or stains from something using hot steam
1
2.5
To remove dirt or stains by rubbing hard with a brush
1
1.0
To remove dirt or mud from a surface
To clean something using water to remove dirt or chemicals
To clean something very well by scrubbing or washing
To remove liquid from a surface by wiping it with a cloth
Antonyms
How Clean
Surface Forms
Morphology
There is a loose, metaphorical link between 'wash' (to remove/clean) + 'out' (completely/away) suggesting depletion or removal, so a learner might sense some loss meaning. However, the specific sense 'to make someone very weak or tired' is metaphorical, the verb has multiple senses (cancelled, fail, exhaust), and the exact exhaustion meaning is not fully predictable for a B1 learner without prior exposure.
Etymology
Wash out shows a simple image: water washes something out, pushing dirt and stains away until it is clean. So it means 'to clean or remove stains'.