📚 verb • entry_id 48132
wash away
Meanings (ES + gloss)
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To eliminate or destroy by fast-moving water, such as a flood or a high sea.
The main East Coast line from Edinburgh to Berwick was blocked at Cockburnspath and Grantshouse by flood water, which washed away part of an embankment, and by the collapse of abou…
Thousands were left homeless as the flood waters washed away the eastern part of the city.
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To eliminate.
This latest piece of information, if true, will wash away all doubt.
Why would this shared history be so easily washed away? In her introduction, Colley directed us away from the notion that nations were characterised by cultural and ethnic homogene…
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