washout

Meaning

1. (countable, uncountable) An act of washing or cleaning the inside of something.
2. (countable, uncountable) An appliance designed to wash out the inside of something.
3. (countable, uncountable) The erosion of a relatively soft surface by a sudden gush of water; also, a channel produced by this action.
4. (countable, uncountable) The erosion of a relatively soft surface by a sudden gush of water; also, a channel produced by this action.
5. (countable, slang, uncountable) A sporting fixture or other event that cannot be completed because of rain.
6. (countable, slang, uncountable) An overwhelming victory; a landslide.
7. (countable, slang, uncountable) A total failure; a disappointment.
8. (countable, slang, uncountable) An unsuccessful person.
9. (countable, uncountable) The aerodynamic effect of a small twist in the shape of an aircraft wing.
10. (British, countable, uncountable) A destroyed aeroplane.
11. (British, countable, uncountable) A trainee who drops out of a training programme.
12. (countable, uncountable) A period between clinical treatments in which any medication delivered as the first treatment is allowed to be eliminated from a person's body before the second treatment begins.
13. (also, countable, uncountable) The cleaning of matter from a physiological system using a fluid; also, the fluid used for such cleaning; or the matter cleaned out from the system.
14. (countable, uncountable) The action whereby falling rainwater cleans particles from the air.
15. (countable, uncountable) A place in a mine where ore has been washed away by a flow of water.

Synonyms

flop

failure

wash

🧽

dud

erosion

scouring

miscarriage

washing

defection

degradation

duffer

elimination

elution

elutriation

eroding

exposure

fiasco

fiddler

fizzling

flivver

flunk

flushing

good-for-nothing

gulley

misfire

non-event

palooka

roguing

sad sack

scrub

selection

setback

slouch

sluicing

tinkerer

underachievement

wash away

wear down

badly done

eating away

scourway

abortion

rain out

washout period

washing away

non event

a near miss

water scouring

scour hole

ablation

Translations

Pleite

Absturz

αποτυχία

fallimento

başarısızlık

yıkama

υποχώρηση

διάβρωση

échec

fiasco

fracaso

desastre

Versagen

Scheitern

Misserfolg

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈwɒʃaʊt/

Etymology

Deverbal from wash out.