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Results for: "wash"

Translating from English to Albanian

Translations:

wash — to clean with water
→ laj
→ lan
wash — to clean oneself
→ lahem
→ pastrohem

Additional Definitions (WordNet):


NOUN (8)

1. a thin coat of water-base paint;

2. the work of cleansing (usually with soap and water);
[syn: wash, washing, lavation]

3. the dry bed of an intermittent stream (as at the bottom of a canyon);
[syn: wash, dry wash]

4. the erosive process of washing away soil or gravel by water (as from a roadway);
- Example: "from the house they watched the washout of their newly seeded lawn by the water"
[syn: washout, wash]

5. the flow of air that is driven backwards by an aircraft propeller;
[syn: slipstream, airstream, race, backwash, wash]

6. a watercolor made by applying a series of monochrome washes one over the other;
[syn: wash, wash drawing]

7. garments or white goods that can be cleaned by laundering;
[syn: laundry, wash, washing, washables]

8. any enterprise in which losses and gains cancel out;
- Example: "at the end of the year the accounting department showed that it was a wash"


VERB (13)

1. clean with some chemical process;
[syn: wash, rinse]

2. cleanse (one's body) with soap and water;
[syn: wash, lave]

3. cleanse with a cleaning agent, such as soap, and water;
- Example: "Wash the towels, please!"
[syn: wash, launder]

4. move by or as if by water;
- Example: "The swollen river washed away the footbridge"

5. be capable of being washed;
- Example: "Does this material wash?"

6. admit to testing or proof;
- Example: "This silly excuse won't wash in traffic court"

7. separate dirt or gravel from (precious minerals);

8. apply a thin coating of paint, metal, etc., to;

9. remove by the application of water or other liquid and soap or some other cleaning agent;
- Example: "he washed the dirt from his coat"
- Example: "The nurse washed away the blood"
- Example: "Can you wash away the spots on the windows?"
- Example: "he managed to wash out the stains"
[syn: wash, wash out, wash off, wash away]

10. form by erosion;
- Example: "The river washed a ravine into the mountainside"

11. make moist;
- Example: "The dew moistened the meadows"
[syn: moisten, wash, dampen]

12. wash or flow against;
- Example: "the waves laved the shore"
[syn: lave, lap, wash]

13. to cleanse (itself or another animal) by licking;
- Example: "The cat washes several times a day"