washout
Pronunciation: /ˈwɒʃaʊt/
The English word “washout” has 15 meanings listed here.
noun
- An act of washing or cleaning the inside of something.
- An appliance designed to wash out the inside of something.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Etymology
Deverbal from wash out.
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