if a substance washes out of cloth, it can be removed by washing
if rain washes out an event, it prevents it from taking place or from continuing
to wash something quickly, especially the inside of a container
"I should make you wash out your mouth with soap, that's what I should do," Angel said.
All the colour has washed out of these old curtains.
Don’t you ever wash out your coffee cups?
It looked like the first game of the season would be washed out.
It seemed to clear my lungs and wash out the anxiety and the heaviness I felt in my body.
Permanent dyes won’t wash out.
Then he'd drink and wash out his sock and bathe his wrists where the thongs had cut.
Theo took the rice off the heat, and showed me how to wash out the starch, then he put it back on the flame.
washes out
washing out
washed out
There is no origin for this phrasal verb
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