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remove by the application of water or other liquid and soap or some other cleaning agent
he managed to wash out the stains
he washed the dirt from his coat
The nurse washed away the blood
Can you wash away the spots on the windows?
How To Use wash off In A Sentence
- Those grease stains won't wash off.
- This is poor seamanship, as a rock awash off Jones Point is not visible.
- An easy to wash off exfoliator that leaves skin squeaky clean. Times, Sunday Times
- We say Easy to apply and wash off, and left the skin feeling smoother. Times, Sunday Times
- The columbine, aquilegia ‘Magpie’, grown from free seeds included in a Thompson and Morgan order several years ago, is now opening, and was glad to get a shower to wash off the yellow pine pollen from its petals. Blessed Rain « Fairegarden
- After the shoot was over, Curtis decided to strip down to her skivvies and wash off the makeup for some real footage.
- This land, often called a riparian buffer, can play a vital role in preventing nutrients that wash off fields and streets from reaching the rivers and coasts. Hypoxia fact sheet
- A shorebird repeatedly dunks its face in a puddle, unable to wash off. In Louisiana, wildlife shows effects of gulf oil spill
- Sometimes chloropicrin lingers, not as a residue to wash off, but in the air. SFGate: Top News Stories
- Back at CommComm, we wash off the shovels, Pine-Sol the copier closet, throw open the windows, check e-mail while the place airs out.
