wash out
[verb]
Synonyms: fail, bomb, flop, flummox, discard, cashier, cast, jettison, junk, reject, scrap, shed, slough, throw away

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wash out phrasal verb (see also wash)

1. wash something ↔ out to wash the inside of something quickly:
I’ll just wash out this vase for flowers.

2. if a substance washes out, you can remove it from a material by washing it:
a dye that won’t wash out

3. be washed out if an event is washed out, it cannot continue because of rain:
The summer fair was washed out by the English weather.
⇒ washed-out, washout

[TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲

wash out
wash out (something)
to cause an activity or event not to happen because of rain.
Even the golf tournament was washed out this week.

Storms washed the picnic out.

wash out (of (something))
to leave a program or activity because you failed to meet its standards.
I didn't make it through flight school — I washed out.

After washing out of the military academy, he joined his father's business.

[TahlilGaran] English Idioms Dictionary ▲

wash out something
wash out (something)
to cause an activity or event not to happen because of rain.
Even the golf tournament was washed out this week.

Storms washed the picnic out.

wash out (of (something))
to leave a program or activity because you failed to meet its standards.
I didn't make it through flight school — I washed out.

After washing out of the military academy, he joined his father's business.

[TahlilGaran] English Idioms Dictionary ▲

wash out
v. phr. To disappear; vanish.
Do you think this stain will wash out?

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