Washes meaning

The rain falls, generally, in heavy and sudden storms, and frequently washes away the surface soil.

He is sent to a place where he washes himself clean from impurity.

The river Jumna, which washes the walls of its fort, was the natural highway for the traffic of the rich delta of Bengal to the heart of India, and it formed, moreover, from very ancient times, the frontier defence of the Aryan stock settled in the plain between the Ganges and the Jumna against their western neighbours, hereditary freebooters who occupied the highlands of Central India.

of Svyatoi Nos on the Kola peninsula belong to a separate zoological region, connected with, and hardly separable from, that part of the Arctic Ocean which washes the Siberian coast as far as the mouth of the Lena.

The youth then washes his hands, which on touching the sacrament had withered up, and is healed.