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Wash out   /wɑʃ aʊt/   Listen
verb
Wash out  v. i. & v. t.  
1.
To be removed by washing; of spots and stains, especially on clothing.
2.
To be removed, broken, or destroyed by the action of flowing water; as, the bridge was washed out by the flood.
3.
To fail in a course of study or training, especially to leave before completion of the course.





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"Wash out" Quotes from Famous Books



... the blows made him insensible to reason; and soon Chazy, the maitre d'armes, Corporal Fleury, Furst, and Leger came in. They all said that Zebede was in the right, and the maitre d'armes added that blood alone could wash out the stain of a blow; that the honor of the recruits required ...
— The Conscript - A Story of the French war of 1813 • Emile Erckmann
... might Ethiopian slaves Wash out the darkness of their skin; The dead as well might leave their graves, As old transgressors ...
— Hymns and Spiritual Songs • Isaac Watts
... having writ, Moves on; nor all your piety and wit Shall lore it back to cancel half a line, Nor all your tears wash out a word of it." ...
— The Moving Finger • Mary Gaunt
... this dinner was the most marked testimony to his importance in the political world. It was about then, a year since, that he prophesied: "Within nine months there will come such a tide and deluge as will sweep through England and Scotland, and completely wash out and effect a much-needed spring cleaning ...
— Real Soldiers of Fortune • Richard Harding Davis
... I can't rule my mourning nohow as a man should, Mr. Melbury," he said. "I ha'n't seen him since Thursday se'night, and have wondered for days and days where he's been keeping. There was I expecting him to come and tell me to wash out the cider-barrels against the making, and here was he— Well, I've knowed him from table-high; I knowed his father—used to bide about upon two sticks in the sun afore he died!—and now I've seen the end of the family, which we ...
— The Woodlanders • Thomas Hardy


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