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Verb: wash away
  1. Remove by the application of water or other liquid and soap or some other cleaning agent
    "The nurse washed away the blood"; "Can you wash away the spots on the windows?";
    - wash, wash out, wash off
     
  2. To set aside as irrelevant
    "wash away all the differences"

Derived forms: washed away, washing away, washes away

Type of: remove, take, take away, withdraw