wash away
Verb
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Verb
wash away
- To eliminate or destroy by fast-moving water, such as a flood or a high sea.
- Thousands were left homeless as the flood waters washed away the eastern part of the city.
- (by extension, figurative) To eliminate.
- This latest piece of information, if true, will wash away all doubt.
- 2014, Ian Jack, "Is this the end of Britishness ↗", The Guardian, 16 September 2014:
- 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 homogeneity – of “blood and soil” – and towards Benedict Anderson’s definition of a nation as an “imagined community”
- Spanish: barrer
- Spanish: barrer
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