Usually means: Elimination or failure of something.
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We found 35 dictionaries that define the word WASHOUT:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. washout: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. washout: Merriam-Webster
  3. washout: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. washout: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. washout: Collins English Dictionary
  6. washout: Vocabulary.com
  7. Washout, washout: Wordnik
  8. washout: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. washout: Wiktionary
  10. washout: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. washout: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. washout: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. washout: Dictionary.com
  14. washout: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Washout (aeronautics), Washout (aviation), Washout (comics), Washout (disambiguation), Washout (erosion), Washout: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Washout: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. washout: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. washout: Rhymezone
  19. Washout: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. washout: FreeDictionary.org
  21. washout: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. washout: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Washout: bizterms.net

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. washout: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. washout: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. washout: Medical dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. washout: Urban Dictionary

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  2. Washout: Sports Definitions

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  2. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (washout)

noun:  An act of washing or cleaning the inside of something.
noun:  An appliance designed to wash out the inside of something.
noun:  The erosion of a relatively soft surface by a sudden gush of water; also, a channel produced by this action.
noun:  (originally US, rail transport, road transport) A breach in a railway or road caused by flooding.
noun:  (slang)
noun:  A sporting fixture or other event that cannot be completed because of rain.
noun:  An overwhelming victory; a landslide.
noun:  A total failure; a disappointment.
noun:  An unsuccessful person.
noun:  (aviation)
noun:  (aeronautics) The aerodynamic effect of a small twist in the shape of an aircraft wing.
noun:  (British, air force slang) A destroyed aeroplane.
noun:  (British, originally air force slang) A trainee who drops out of a training programme.
noun:  (medicine)
noun:  A period between clinical treatments in which any medication delivered as the first treatment is allowed to be eliminated from a person's body before the second treatment begins.
noun:  (also biology) The cleaning of matter from a physiological system using a fluid; also, the fluid used for such cleaning; or the matter cleaned out from the system.
noun:  (meteorology) The action whereby falling rainwater cleans particles from the air.
noun:  (mining) A place in a mine where ore has been washed away by a flow of water.

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