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"text": "No. 21C9 was in need of a boiler washout and though she was carefully and assiduously fired and use made of the fire-irons during the run, it was not possible to maintain steam, which often fell as low as 210 lb.",
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"ref": "1959 April, “Motive Power Miscellany: Eastern Region”, in Trains Illustrated, London: Ian Allan Publishing, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 224",
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"ref": "2011 March 28, “Illawarra turns blue in Liberal washout”, in ABC News, Sydney, N.S.W., archived from the original on 2023-03-03",
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"ref": "2020 November 5, Jack Elsom, “‘We were told this was going to be a landslide!’ Piers Morgan blames the Democrats and Joe Biden’s lacklustre campaign for closer than predicted presidential race”, in Daily Mail, London: DMG Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2020-11-19",
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"tags": [
"Southern-England"
],
"text": "Audio (Southern England)"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "wash-out"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "act of washing or cleaning the inside of something",
"word": "pesu"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "act of washing or cleaning the inside of something",
"word": "peseminen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "act of washing or cleaning the inside of something",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Auswaschung"
},
{
"alt": "あらいだし",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "araidashi",
"sense": "act of washing or cleaning the inside of something",
"word": "洗い出し"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "act of washing or cleaning the inside of something",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
],
"word": "utvasking"
},
{
"code": "nn",
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"sense": "act of washing or cleaning the inside of something",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "utvasking"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "act of washing or cleaning the inside of something",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "derrama"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "appliance designed to wash out the inside of something",
"word": "pesuri"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "erosion of a relatively soft surface by a sudden gush of water; channel produced by this action",
"word": "huuhtoutuminen"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "erosion of a relatively soft surface by a sudden gush of water; channel produced by this action",
"word": "huuhtoutuma"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "razorúvanje",
"sense": "erosion of a relatively soft surface by a sudden gush of water; channel produced by this action",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "разору́вање"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "erózija",
"sense": "erosion of a relatively soft surface by a sudden gush of water; channel produced by this action",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "еро́зија"
},
{
"code": "sah",
"lang": "Yakut",
"roman": "eğe",
"sense": "erosion of a relatively soft surface by a sudden gush of water; channel produced by this action",
"word": "эҕэ"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "breach in a railway or road caused by flooding",
"word": "huuhtoutuma"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "sporting fixture or other event that cannot be completed because of rain",
"word": "sateen takia peruttu ottelu"
},
{
"code": "ceb",
"lang": "Cebuano",
"sense": "unsuccessful person",
"word": "bangâ"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "unsuccessful person",
"word": "luuseri"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "unsuccessful person",
"tags": [
"informal",
"masculine"
],
"word": "raté"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "nésreḱnik",
"sense": "unsuccessful person",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "не́среќник"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "nekádarnik",
"sense": "unsuccessful person",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "нека́дарник"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "gúbitnik",
"sense": "unsuccessful person",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "гу́битник"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "neudáčnik",
"sense": "unsuccessful person",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "неуда́чник"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "unsuccessful person",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic",
"figuratively",
"masculine"
],
"word": "банкро̀те̄р"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "unsuccessful person",
"tags": [
"Roman",
"figuratively",
"masculine"
],
"word": "bankròtēr"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "lúzer",
"sense": "unsuccessful person",
"tags": [
"masculine",
"slang"
],
"word": "лу́зер"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "nevdáxa",
"sense": "unsuccessful person",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"informal",
"masculine"
],
"word": "невда́ха"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "aerodynamic effect of a small twist in the shape of an aircraft wing",
"word": "(negatiivinen) kohtauskulman kierto"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "destroyed aeroplane",
"word": "hylky"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "trainee who drops out of a training programme",
"word": "pudokas"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "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",
"word": "puhdistusjakso"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "cleaning of matter from a physiological system using a fluid; fluid used for such cleaning; matter cleaned out from the system",
"word": "huuhtelu"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "action whereby falling rainwater cleans particles from the air",
"word": "sadehuuhtelu"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "place in a mine where ore has been washed away by a flow of water",
"word": "huuhtoutunut alue"
}
],
"word": "washout"
}
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