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Rarewashout
The correct spelling is washout.
How to pronounce washout
/ˈwɒʃaʊt/
nounIPA: /ˈwɒʃaʊt/
Say it like: Was-how-t
The correct spelling is washout. An appliance designed to wash something out. For example: "The cistern was fitted with washouts and air-valves."
Usage Examples
“The cistern was fitted with washouts and air-valves.”
“a bladder washout”
“As an actor, he was a complete washout, so he went back to accounting.”
Definition
noun
- 1.An appliance designed to wash something out.
- 2.The cleaning of matter from a physiological system using a fluid.
- 3.A period between clinical treatments in which any medication delivered as the first treatment is allowed to wash out of the person before the second treatment begins.
- 4.The action whereby falling rainwater clean particles from the air.
- 5.A channel produced by the erosion of a relatively soft surface by a sudden gush of water.
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