wash-out
Because it is a word with a single syllable, wash-out is not hyphenated. The words that have a single syllable are called monosyllabic words.
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Definitions ofwash-out
- An appliance designed to wash something out.
Example: "The cistern was fitted with washouts and air-valves."
- The cleaning of matter from a physiological system using a fluid.
Example: "a bladder washout"
- A period between clinical treatments in which any medication delivered as the first treatment is allowed to wash out of the person before the second treatment begins.
- The action whereby falling rainwater clean particles from the air.
- A channel produced by the erosion of a relatively soft surface by a sudden gush of water.
- A breach in a road or railway caused by flooding.
- The cleaning of the inside of a (locomotive) boiler to remove scale (limescale).
- A disappointment or total failure; an unsuccessful person.
Example: "As an actor, he was a complete washout, so he went back to accounting."
- A sporting fixture or other event that could not be completed because of rain.
- The aerodynamic effect of a small twist in the shape of an aircraft wing
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