Definitions for eyewashes

eyewashes eye·wash

Spelling: [ahy-wosh, ahy-wawsh]
IPA: /ˈaɪˌwɒʃ, ˈaɪˌwɔʃ/

Eyewashes is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 140 anagrams from letters in eyewashes (aeeehsswy).

Definitions for eyewashes

noun

  1. Also called collyrium. Pharmacology. a solution applied locally to the eye for irrigation or administering medication.
  2. Informal. nonsense; bunk.

Origin of eyewashes

First recorded in 1865-70; eye + wash

Examples for eyewashes

The leaves and flowers are also used as expectorants, and the juice of the fruit and leaves is used as an eyewash.

All the high-sounding arguments for a moral world and all the laws on the books implementing those arguments are just eyewash.

The eye is then covered with a cloth, kept wet with an eyewash, as for external ophthalmia.

Word Value for eyewashes
Scrable

16

Words with friends

14

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