washout

Meaning

1. An act of washing or cleaning the inside of something.
2. An appliance designed to wash out the inside of something.
3. The erosion of a relatively soft surface by a sudden gush of water; also, a channel produced by this action.
4. The erosion of a relatively soft surface by a sudden gush of water; also, a channel produced by this action.
5. (slang) A sporting fixture or other event that cannot be completed because of rain.
6. (slang) An overwhelming victory; a landslide.
7. (slang) A total failure; a disappointment.
8. (slang) An unsuccessful person.
9. The aerodynamic effect of a small twist in the shape of an aircraft wing.
10. A destroyed aeroplane.
11. A trainee who drops out of a training programme.
12. 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. 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. The action whereby falling rainwater cleans particles from the air.
15. 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

scour pit

ablution

abrasion

bath

🛀

blunderer

cleaning

dead loss

defeated

Hyphenated as

wash‧out

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈwɒʃaʊt/

Etymology

Deverbal from wash out.