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wash away

verb as in leach

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As surging tides threatened to wash away her 30-year labor of love, one Brooklyn resident watched in horror.

“It really looked like it was going to break and wash away,” Andjelic said.

For now the storm front hangs over Indiana, poised to wash away the career of a man of civility and substance.

Not even Hurricane Fay, which rammed through the Orlando, Florida, area in August 2008, could wash away the child's legacy.

Now 500 dead soldiers later, Blair has "blood on his hands" that no amount of do-goodery can wash away.

After printing the paper to the proper shade the toning and fixing baths will wash away the ink and leave the lettering in white.

Where are the youth who will generously pour out their blood to wash away so much shame, so much crime, so much abomination?

Molire has leaned over this well-curb to wash away his rouge and wrinkles.

I would have bestowed a flagon of Auvernat upon you to wash away every unkindness—-but 't is like you scorn my courtesy.

And passing into the outer kitchen, Richard began to wash away the traces of his day's work.

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On this page you'll find 141 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to wash away, such as: break down, break up, come apart, crumble, decay, and decompose.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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