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washout

The correct spelling is washout.

How to pronounce washout

/ˈwɒʃaʊt/
noun

IPA: /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. 1.An appliance designed to wash something out.
  2. 2.The cleaning of matter from a physiological system using a fluid.
  3. 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. 4.The action whereby falling rainwater clean particles from the air.
  5. 5.A channel produced by the erosion of a relatively soft surface by a sudden gush of water.

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