"wash-out" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: wash-outs [plural]
Etymology: Deverbal from wash out. Etymology templates: {{deverbal|en|wash out}} Deverbal from wash out Head templates: {{en-noun}} wash-out (plural wash-outs)
  1. Alternative form of washout Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: washout
    Sense id: en-wash-out-en-noun-LfX8afCY Categories (other): English deverbals, English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries
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          "ref": "1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “Where Silas Linden Comes into His Own”, in The Land of Mist, New York, N.Y.: A[lbert] L[evi] Burt Company, published 1926, →OCLC, page 190:",
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          "ref": "1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, “CHAPTERS XX–XXI”, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:",
          "text": "[Chapter XX] \"And what you do, Bertie, is get out that car of yours and scour the countryside for Glossop. It may be possible to head him off. Come on, come on, let's have some service. What are you waiting for?” I hadn't exactly been waiting. I'd only been thinking that the enterprise had more than a touch of looking for a needle in a haystack about it. You can't find loony-doctors on their afternoon off just by driving around Worcestershire in a car; you need bloodhounds and handkerchiefs for them to sniff at and all that professional stuff. Still, there it was. “Right-ho,” I said. “Anything to oblige.” [Chapter XXI] And, of course, as I had anticipated from the start, the thing was a wash-out. I stuck it out for about an hour and then, apprised by a hollow feeling in the midriff that the dinner hour was approaching, laid a course for home.",
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