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- noun geography The
washing action ofrain , capable oferosion and transportingsoil .
Etymologies
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Examples
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They landed in a dry rainwash that was the flattest and least overgrown terrain in the lush basin.
Sanctuary John Vornholt 1992
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They landed in a dry rainwash that was the flattest and least overgrown terrain in the lush basin.
Sanctuary John Vornholt 1992
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They landed in a dry rainwash that was the flattest and least overgrown terrain in the lush basin.
Sanctuary John Vornholt 1992
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Farther down the gully there was a rainwash that had eroded a depression in the bank.
Half of Paradise James Lee Burke 1965
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After a time the great boulders fall off and the underlying clay becomes worn by the rainwash to fantastic spikes and ridges.
The Birth-Time of the World and Other Scientific Essays John Joly 1895
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