Read full poem →Past would be for time to annihilate,
And wash out, like a tide that washes
Out of the sand what a child has drawn there.
Dictionary Entry
To wash the inside of something.
In a Sentence
“We must wash out the bins; they are full of maggots.”
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Poetry examples for “wash out”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Life's hopes waste all to nothingness away
As showers at night wash out the steps of day.
Read full poem →Not less renew the heart and brain,
Scatter the sloth, wash out the stain,
Make the aged eye sun-clear,
Read full poem →Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,
Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it.
Read full poem →Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,
Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it.
Read full poem →Off from the house as far as we could keep
And from barn smells you can't wash out of ploughed ground
With all the rain and snow of seven years;