washout
English Thesaurus
1. someone who is unsuccessful (noun.person)
| domain usage | : | colloquialism, |
| definition | : | a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech (noun.communication) |
2. the erosive process of washing away soil or gravel by water (as from a roadway) (noun.process)
| hypernym | : | soil erosion, |
| definition | : | the washing away of soil by the flow of water (noun.process) |
| hyponym | : | rain-wash, |
| definition | : | the washing away of soil or other loose material by rain (noun.process) |
3. the channel or break produced by erosion of relatively soft soil by water (noun.shape)
| hypernym | : | channel, groove, |
| definition | : | a long narrow furrow cut either by a natural process (such as erosion) or by a tool (as e.g. a groove in a phonograph record) (noun.shape) |
4. the erosive process of washing away soil or gravel by water (as from a roadway) (noun.process)
| derivation | : | wash out, |
| definition | : | wear or destroy by the force of water (verb.contact) |
| derivation | : | wash out, |
| definition | : | wear or destroy by the force of water (verb.contact) |
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