[wɒʃ], (Verb)

Definitions:
- clean with water and, typically, soap or detergent
(e.g: Auntie Lou had washed all their clothes)

- (of flowing water) carry (someone or something) in a particular direction
(e.g: floods washed away the bridges)

- brush with a thin coat of dilute paint or ink
(e.g: the walls were washed with shades of umber)

- seem convincing or genuine
(e.g: charm won't wash with this crew)


Phrases:
- come out in the wash
- in the wash
- wash its face
- wash one's hands
- wash one's hands of
- wash one's mouth out

Origin:
Old English wæscan (verb), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch wassen, German waschen, also to water

[wɒʃ], (Noun)

Definitions:
- an act of washing something or an instance of being washed
(e.g: her hair needs a wash)

- the water or air disturbed by a moving boat or aircraft
(e.g: the wash of a motorboat)

- an inlet of the North Sea on the east coast of England between Norfolk and Lincolnshire

- a medicinal or cleansing solution
(e.g: citrus-scented body wash)

- a layer of paint or metal spread thinly on a surface
(e.g: the walls were covered with a pale lemon wash)

- silt or gravel carried by a stream or river and deposited as sediment

- kitchen slops and other food waste fed to pigs

- malt fermenting in preparation for distillation

- a situation or result that is of no benefit to either of two opposing sides
(e.g: the plan's impact on jobs would be a wash, creating as many as it costs)


Phrases:
- come out in the wash
- in the wash
- wash its face
- wash one's hands
- wash one's hands of
- wash one's mouth out

Origin:
Old English wæscan (verb), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch wassen, German waschen, also to water