Usually means: Fail to meet required standards.
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We found 27 dictionaries that define the word wash out:

General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. wash out: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. wash out: Merriam-Webster
  3. wash out: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. wash-out, wash out: Collins English Dictionary
  5. wash out: Vocabulary.com
  6. wash-out: Wordnik
  7. wash (sth) out, wash out: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. wash-out, wash out: Wiktionary
  9. wash-out, wash out: Dictionary.com
  10. wash out: Rhymezone
  11. wash out: FreeDictionary.org
  12. wash out: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. wash-out, wash out: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. wash out: Legal dictionary
  3. wash out: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. wash out: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. wash out: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. wash out: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. wash out: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. wash out: Urban Dictionary

Sports (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Mountain Bike Slang (No longer online)
  2. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  3. Wash out: Sports Definitions

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See wash_outs as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (wash out)

verb:  To wash the inside of something.
verb:  To remove something by washing.
verb:  To be removed by washing.
verb:  (idiomatic) To wear away by the flow of water; to erode.
verb:  (idiomatic) To cancel due to bad weather.
verb:  (idiomatic) To lose traction while going around a turn, especially in cycling, motorsports and skiing/snowboarding.
verb:  To fail utterly at something one has attempted.

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