'Washout' definitions:
Definition of 'washout'
From: WordNet
noun
The channel or break produced by erosion of relatively soft soil by water; "it was several days after the storm before they could repair the washout and open the road"
noun
The erosive process of washing away soil or gravel by water (as from a roadway); "from the house they watched the washout of their newly seeded lawn by the water" [syn: washout, wash]
noun
Definition of 'Washout'
From: GCIDE
- Washout \Wash"out`\, n.
- 1. The washing out or away of earth, etc., especially of a portion of the bed of a road or railroad by a fall of rain or a freshet; also, a place, especially in the bed of a road or railroad, where the earth has been washed away. [1913 Webster]
- 2. a complete failure; -- of an enterprise. [PJC]
- 3. a person who has failed a course of study or training, leaving the program before its completion. [PJC]
Synonyms of 'washout'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- ablution,
- airmanship,
- alluvion,
- alluvium,
- also-ran,
- bankrupt,
- bollix,
- bomb,
- botch,
- breakdown,
- breaking up,
- breakup,
- brief,
- briefing,
- bungle,
- bust,
- cataclysm,
- catastrophe,
- cave,
- cave-in,
- cleaning out,
- collapse,
- crack-up,
- crash,
- debacle,
- deluge,
- disaster,
- douche,
- douching,
- dud,
- dull thud,
- elution,
- elutriation,
- enema,
- engulfment,
- failure,
- false alarm,
- fiasco,
- fizzle,
- flat failure,
- flight plan,
- flood,
- flop,
- floperoo,
- flunk,
- flush,
- flushing,
- flushing out,
- flying lessons,
- foozle,
- frost,
- hash,
- inundation,
- irrigation,
- lathering,
- lavabo,
- lavage,
- lavation,
- laving,
- lemon,
- loser,
- mess,
- mopping,
- mopping up,
- muddle,
- overflow,
- overflowing,
- overrunning,
- pilot training,
- pilotship,
- rinse,
- rinsing,
- rundown,
- scouring,
- scrub,
- scrubbing,
- scrubbing up,
- shampoo,
- shipwreck,
- smash,
- smashup,
- soaping,
- spill,
- spillage,
- sponge,
- sponging,
- submersion,
- swabbing,
- the Deluge,
- the Flood,
- total loss,
- turkey,
- wash,
- washing,
- washing up,
- washup,
- whelming,
- wiping up,
- wrack,
- wreck