wash away

phrasal verb

washed away; washing away; washes away

1

: to carry (something) away by the movement of water

The bridge was washed away by flooding last year.

2

: to get rid of (something, such as unhappy or unpleasant thoughts) completely

Take a vacation to wash away your troubles.

Examples of wash away in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Melissa is forecast to wash away roads, destroy homes and knock out electricity, leaving communities isolated, meteorologists said. —ABC News, 27 Oct. 2025

In other words, the original skin inside the clay layer must have decayed and washed away, while the same groundwater saturated the bones en route to their fossilization. —Paul C. Sereno, The Conversation, 24 Oct. 2025

Then, weeks after they were buried, the soft parts of the carcasses decayed and were washed away by groundwater, leaving the clay mask to forever preserve the forms of what lay just beneath, Sereno says. —Andrea Tamayo, Scientific American, 23 Oct. 2025

Extreme weather and climate events can wash away dream homes. —Alex Ohnona, Fortune, 22 Oct. 2025

Rhymes for wash away

• aaa
• adonais
• alleyway
• alumnae
• anime
• anyway
• arete
• attache
• baa
• beaujolais
• bouvier
• breakaway