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say it: wahsh
wash is a verb and noun meaning "clean with some chemical process". It is pronounced /ˈwɑʃ/ — wahsh. It carries 21 recorded senses.
cleanse with a cleaning agent, such as soap, and water
“Wash the towels, please!”
a thin coat of water-base paint
the erosive process of washing away soil or gravel by water (as from a roadway)
“from the house they watched the washout of their newly seeded lawn by the water”
the flow of air that is driven backwards by an aircraft propeller
a watercolor made by applying a series of monochrome washes one over the other
garments or white goods that can be cleaned by laundering
any enterprise in which losses and gains cancel out
“at the end of the year the accounting department showed that it was a wash”
colloquialism
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for wash come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.