washout

Meanings

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. A breach in a railway or road caused by flooding.
5. A sporting fixture or other event that cannot be completed because of rain.
6. An overwhelming victory; a landslide.
7. A total failure; a disappointment.
8. 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.

Etymology

Deverbal from wash out.

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