wash away

phrasal verb

washed away; washing away; washes away

: to carry (something) away by the movement of water

The bridge was washed away by flooding last year.

: to get rid of (something, such as unhappy or unpleasant thoughts) completely

Take a vacation to wash away your troubles.

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Eventually, the polymer scaffold dissolves and the cells are washed away with a special solution. —

Emily Mullin, WIRED, 29 Jan. 2025 Without a healthy root system from plants to help stabilize the ground, the landscape can be washed away, resulting in debris flows, mudslides and flash flooding. —

Hannah Parry, Newsweek, 27 Jan. 2025 Whatever went wrong during the regular season was washed away in a four-game run of really good players making really big plays. —

Stewart Mandel, The Athletic, 21 Jan. 2025 And when history is written, Elon Musk, Steve Bannon, Tucker Carlson, Jonathan Karl will all be washed away and forgotten in the footnotes. —

ABC News, 19 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for wash away