Clues for the word "WASH"
We've had 131 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 328 times in crosswords. It was last seen in LA Times crossword on February 09, 2026.
Definition of wash
- v. t. - To cleanse by ablution, or dipping or rubbing in water; to apply water or other liquid to for the purpose of cleansing; to scrub with water, etc., or as with water; as, to wash the hands or body; to wash garments; to wash sheep or wool; to wash the pavement or floor; to wash the bark of trees.
- v. t. - To cover with water or any liquid; to wet; to fall on and moisten; hence, to overflow or dash against; as, waves wash the shore.
- v. t. - To waste or abrade by the force of water in motion; as, heavy rains wash a road or an embankment.
- v. t. - To remove by washing to take away by, or as by, the action of water; to drag or draw off as by the tide; -- often with away, off, out, etc.; as, to wash dirt from the hands.
- v. t. - To cover with a thin or watery coat of color; to tint lightly and thinly.
- v. t. - To overlay with a thin coat of metal; as, steel washed with silver.
- v. i. - To perform the act of ablution.
- v. i. - To clean anything by rubbing or dipping it in water; to perform the business of cleansing clothes, ore, etc., in water.
- v. i. - To bear without injury the operation of being washed; as, some calicoes do not wash.
- v. i. - To be wasted or worn away by the action of water, as by a running or overflowing stream, or by the dashing of the sea; -- said of road, a beach, etc.
- n. - The act of washing; an ablution; a cleansing, wetting, or dashing with water; hence, a quantity, as of clothes, washed at once.
- n. - A piece of ground washed by the action of a sea or river, or sometimes covered and sometimes left dry; the shallowest part of a river, or arm of the sea; also, a bog; a marsh; a fen; as, the washes in Lincolnshire.
- n. - Substances collected and deposited by the action of water; as, the wash of a sewer, of a river, etc.
- n. - Waste liquid, the refuse of food, the collection from washed dishes, etc., from a kitchen, often used as food for pigs.
- n. - The fermented wort before the spirit is extracted.
- n. - A mixture of dunder, molasses, water, and scummings, used in the West Indies for distillation.
- n. - That with which anything is washed, or wetted, smeared, tinted, etc., upon the surface.
- n. - A liquid cosmetic for the complexion.
- n. - A liquid dentifrice.
- n. - A liquid preparation for the hair; as, a hair wash.
- n. - A medical preparation in a liquid form for external application; a lotion.
- n. - A thin coat of color, esp. water color.
- n. - A thin coat of metal laid on anything for beauty or preservation.
- n. - The blade of an oar, or the thin part which enters the water.
- n. - The backward current or disturbed water caused by the action of oars, or of a steamer's screw or paddles, etc.
- n. - The flow, swash, or breaking of a body of water, as a wave; also, the sound of it.
- n. - Ten strikes, or bushels, of oysters.
- a. - Washy; weak.
- a. - Capable of being washed without injury; washable; as, wash goods.
Referring Clues
- Do the dishes
- Household chore
- Hamper contents
- Fab place?
- Clothes in a basket, say
- Partner of 55-Across
- See 19-Down
- It may get agitated
- Basketful, maybe
- No-loss, no-gain situation
- Laundry job
- Laundry
- Break-even enterprise
- Do the laundry
- Launder
- Take a 39-Across
- Scrub
- Clean up
- Make clean
- Get ready for dinner, with "up"
- Lave
- Laundry load
- First back ender
- Use soap and water
- Load requiring separating
- Whites or darks in a pile
- Thin coat of water-based paint
- Break-even venture
- Bathe
- Erode, with "away"
- Load in a basket
- Break-even situation
- Piled whites and darks
- Traditional Monday chore
- Get the grime off
- Do, as dishes
- Get cleaned up
- Do laundry
- Laundry cycle
- Withstand scrutiny
- It is often hampered?
- Hold water
- What it all comes out in
- Word with "off" or "away"
- It gets hung out to dry
- Even outcome
- Wadi
- Appear correct, as a theory
- Laundromat fodder
- It dries on the line
- Get ready to dine
- Something to fold
- Basketful of clothes
- Monday chore, perhaps
- It may be spinning
- Hog _______
- Do a traditional Monday chore
- Cleanse
- Dry's partner
- There's often a separate one for whites
- Get ready for dinner
- Clean
- Seattle loc.
- Basketful, perhaps
- Scrub up
- Take a bath
- Load requiring separation
- Come clean?
- Laundromat load
- One of four in this puzzle
- Dry streambed
- Clothesline load
- Follower of hand, mouth, or brain
- Break-even transaction
- Get clean
- Neither gain nor loss
- Do a laundry chore
- Withstand examination
- "___ ME" (phrase written on dirty cars)
- Southwestern dry river
- Load of laundry
- Situation with equal losses and gains
- Drawers on a line, e.g.
- Opposite of dirty
- Hamper load
- ___ and dry the dishes
- Purify
- "___ ME" (words written on dirty cars)
- ___ up (get ready for dinner)
- Laundry used to be hard
- Laundry used to be hot
- One way to not be dirty
- Clean with water
- "At the car ___"
- Creed "___ Away Those Years"
- Perform ablutions
- Clean up what used to be the capital of Hungary
- The inlet where the water was hot?
- Rinse
- It might be on the line
- Cancelled event - utter failure
- Norfolk water used to be the start of 12
- Rough water left by a moving boat
- Get ready to go out
- Watercolorist's application
- Enterprise whose participants break even
- Rinse was hot
- Clean part of the North Sea
- The ___-, inlet of the North Sea
- Innermost part of bowel remains clean
- Shampoo, say
- Loads of housework
- For which the water was hot?
- Common load
- Clean, as clothes
- Clothes to clean
- Do Monday's task
- Clean with soap
- For which the water was hot
- Wear's partner
- ___ the dishes
- Clean the inlet
- Draw, colloquially
- Get earth off your skin
- Use soap on
- Break-even proposition
- The inlet where the water was hot?
- No-win situation
- Clean off
- Do some laundry
- Zero-sum game
Last Seen In
- LA Times - February 09, 2026
- Evening Standard Cryptic - February 02, 2026
- New York Times - January 30, 2026
- Evening Standard Cryptic - January 01, 2026
- Daily Cryptic - November 04, 2025
- LA Times - October 27, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - October 06, 2025
- Mirror Daily - July 19, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - May 08, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - April 07, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - March 06, 2025
- Daily American - February 28, 2025
- Daily American - February 20, 2025
- New York Times - February 13, 2025
- USA Today - February 12, 2025
- USA Today - January 27, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - January 20, 2025
- Daily American - November 23, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - November 04, 2024
- New York Times - October 27, 2024
- Daily American - October 21, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - October 14, 2024
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - September 24, 2024
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - September 07, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - July 28, 2024
- Daily American - July 06, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - April 07, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - April 03, 2024
- Mirror Daily - February 09, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - January 10, 2024
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