if something such as rain or a river washes something away, it carries it away
Forecasters said the snow would be washed away quickly by rain - but that prospect sparked flood warnings.
Heavy rains have washed away the bridge.
In reality it was an expensive disaster and the all-weather gallop was virtually washed away in a rain storm.
It had been washed away by rain the next morning.
It is barely four years since Qatar's big moment was washed away in torrential rain.
It would have been brushed off by street cleaners, kicked away by pedestrians or simply washed away in the rain.
Narrow terraces have to be carved out of hillsides so steep that particularly heavy monsoon rains sometimes wash away entire strips of farmland.
Then unexpected rains washed away the grit and a cold snap froze the roads into sheets of ice.
They were comfortably the better team over both matches, including a second leg in which the poison was washed away by teeming rain.
This is due to exposure to sunlight, caused when rain washes away the soil from around the plants.
This temporary artwork was designed to be washed away by rain, but some locals were still outraged.
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There is no origin for this phrasal verb
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