Definitions for washouts

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washouts wash·out

Spelling: [wosh-out, wawsh-]

IPA: /ˈwɒʃˌaʊt, ˈwɔʃ-/

Washouts is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 198 anagrams from letters in washouts (ahosstuw).

Definitions for washouts

noun

1. a washing out of earth, gravel, etc., by water, as from an embankment or a roadway by heavy rain or by a flash flood.
2. the hole, break, or erosion produced by such a washing out.
3. Also, wash-out. Aeronautics. a warp in an airfoil that gives a decrease in the angle of attack toward the tip. Compare washin.
4. rainout.
5. Informal. an utter failure.
6. Informal. a person who has failed a course of training or study:

Origin of washouts

First recorded in 1870-75; noun use of verb phrase wash out

Examples for washouts

When the washout bowl was introduced it was considered perfection.

Then we fastened a tin bucket to a pole and fished the washout.

Just for an instant the word “washout” flashed through his mind.

But Gladys knew the reason now, for she had seen the washout.

I dare say it'll be a washout, but houses are scarce nowadays.

This filling and repairing looks like the washout might have been true.

He knew the spring rains with their awesome powers of washout and flood.

With one last look at the washout, they turned and began climbing the grade.

An attack that fails is a "washout," for not all attacks succeed.

One day one of the students came up to him for washout check.