WASH AWAY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does wash away mean? 

• WASH AWAY (verb)
  The verb WASH AWAY has 2 senses:

1. eliminate

2. remove by the application of water or other liquid and soap or some other cleaning agent

  Familiarity information: WASH AWAY used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WASH AWAY (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Eliminate

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Context example:

wash away all the differences

Hypernyms (to "wash away" is one way to...):

remove; take away (get rid of something abstract)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Sense 2

Meaning:

Remove by the application of water or other liquid and soap or some other cleaning agent

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

wash; wash away; wash off; wash out

Context example:

he managed to wash out the stains

Hypernyms (to "wash away" is one way to...):

remove; take; take away; withdraw (remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract)

Verb group:

rinse; wash (clean with some chemical process)

wash out (wash free from unwanted substances, such as dirt)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

 Context examples 

The lake seemed to wash away the troubles of the past, and the grand old mountains to look benignly down upon them saying, "Little children, love one another."

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

His idea was still with me, because it was not a vapour sunshine could disperse, nor a sand-traced effigy storms could wash away; it was a name graven on a tablet, fated to last as long as the marble it inscribed.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)