brainwashed

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Last week's rainwashed World Series ended with a genuine bang, but as series go, it had more than its share of fizzles.

From Time Magazine Archive

The air flowed in, rainwashed, under the strips of birchbark walls she had helped sew together yesterday.

From "The Birchbark House" by Louise Erdrich

Both lads found not only a fresh trail leading ridgeward, but signs of an earlier trail, now much rainwashed, 221 that led towards the slough, not away from it as the fresh trail did.

From The Auto Boys' Mystery by Braden, James A. (James Andrew)

Ahead, clear-cut and blue in the rainwashed atmosphere, a stretch of the New South Wales coast.

From From Chart House to Bush Hut Being the Record of a Sailor's 7 Years in the Queensland Bush by Bryde, Charles W. L.

Standing in the candle-light by the window, where a million rainwashed stars twinkled in the depthless ocean of the night, I rested my brow against the cool, glazed pane, lost in most bitter reflexion.

From The Little Red Foot by Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William)