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dry washes

dry washes is the plural of dry wash.

Meaning of dry wash

Noun

dry wash (plural dry washes)

  1. A riverbed that is often dry and that contains water only during rainy periods.
    • Near-synonyms: arroyo, wadi, nahal (synonymous other than regiolectal specificity)
    Synonyms:
    wash, arroyo, wadi, nahal

Questions about dry washes

What is dry washes the plural of?
Dry washes is the plural of dry wash.

Words near dry washes in the dictionary

  1. dry vomiting
  2. dry vomits
  3. dry wall
  4. dry walls
  5. dry wash
  6. dry washes
  7. dry weight
  8. dry weights
  9. dry well
  10. dry wells
  11. dry wors

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Adapted from Wiktionary: dry washes (page history and authors); dry wash (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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