How to pronounce wash
American English pronunciation
WOSH
- IPA
- /ˈwɑʃ/
- Syllables
- WOSH (1 syllable)
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What wash means
Most people know wash in its everyday sense. Here's its other meaning.
A thin, watery coat of paint or ink
In a sentence: Lena brushed a pale blue wash across the paper to make the sky.
Where it comes from: It is the same word as wash, to clean, from the Old English wascan. Painters wash a thin layer of color over the paper.
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