wash-out
noun
Meaning
- An appliance designed to wash something out.
- The cleaning of matter from a physiological system using a fluid.
- A period between clinical treatments in which any medication delivered as the first treatment is allowed to wash out of the person before the second treatment begins.
- The action whereby falling rainwater clean particles from the air.
- A channel produced by the erosion of a relatively soft surface by a sudden gush of water.
- A breach in a road or railway caused by flooding.
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