Wash out Meaning in English
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Definition
To clean something by washing it thoroughly, to remove a substance with water, or, in informal use, for an event to be canceled due to rain.
Usage & Nuances
'Wash out' is informal and common in both physical (washing dirt, removing color) and idiomatic uses (event canceled by rain: 'The game was washed out'). Also appears as 'get washed out' for passive sense. Not to be confused with 'wash up' or 'wash off'.
Example Sentences
Please wash out the bottle before you recycle it.
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The rain will wash out the chalk on the sidewalk.
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Be careful not to wash out the colors when you do the laundry.
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The baseball game got washed out because of the storm.
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After that laundry, my favorite shirt looks really washed out.
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Half the festival was washed out, but we still had fun at the indoor events.
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