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wash-machine

wash-machine is the dated form of wash machine.

Meaning of wash machine

Noun

wash machine (plural wash machines)

  1. (informal) Synonym of washing machine.
    • BRIDGEPORT-The D. M. Read Co.; W. W. Taylor, electrical refrigerators, wash machines, house furnishings; […]1928 June 29, “ARRIVAL OF BUYERS”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 10 Dec 2025
    Synonyms:
    washing machine

Forms of wash-machine

pluralwash-machines

Questions about wash-machine

What is wash-machine the dated form of?
Wash-machine is the dated form of wash machine.

Words near wash-machine in the dictionary

  1. wash-basins
  2. wash-gilding
  3. wash-hand
  4. wash-leather
  5. wash-leathers
  6. wash-machine
  7. wash-machines
  8. wash-off
  9. wash-offs
  10. wash-out
  11. wash-outs

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Adapted from Wiktionary: wash-machine (page history and authors); wash machine (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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