Words that rhyme with eyewash

  • awash
    adj 1: covered with water; "the main deck was afloat (or awash)"; "the monsoon left the whole place awash"; "a flooded bathroom"; "inundated farmlands"; "an overflowing tub" [syn: afloat(p), awash(p), flooded, inundated, overflowing]
  • backwash
    n 1: the flow of air that is driven backwards by an aircraft propeller [syn: slipstream, airstream, race, backwash, wash] 2: the consequences of an event (especially a catastrophic event); "the aftermath of war"; "in the wake of the accident no one knew how many had been injured" [syn: aftermath, wake, backwash] 3: the wave that spreads behind a boat as it moves forward; "the motorboat's wake capsized the canoe" [syn: wake, backwash]
  • bosh
    n 1: pretentious or silly talk or writing [syn: baloney, boloney, bilgewater, bosh, drool, humbug, taradiddle, tarradiddle, tommyrot, tosh, twaddle]
  • brainwash
    v 1: persuade completely, often through coercion; "The propaganda brainwashed many people" 2: submit to brainwashing; indoctrinate forcibly
  • galosh
    n 1: a waterproof overshoe that protects shoes from water or snow [syn: arctic, galosh, golosh, rubber, gumshoe]
  • hogwash
    n 1: unacceptable behavior (especially ludicrously false statements) [syn: bunk, bunkum, buncombe, guff, rot, hogwash]
  • josh
    v 1: be silly or tease one another; "After we relaxed, we just kidded around" [syn: kid, chaff, jolly, josh, banter]
  • mouthwash
    n 1: a medicated solution used for gargling and rinsing the mouth [syn: gargle, mouthwash]
  • panache
    n 1: distinctive and stylish elegance; "he wooed her with the confident dash of a cavalry officer" [syn: dash, elan, flair, panache, style] 2: a feathered plume on a helmet
  • posh
    adj 1: elegant and fashionable; "classy clothes"; "a classy dame"; "a posh restaurant"; "a swish pastry shop on the Rue du Bac"- Julia Child [syn: classy, posh, swish]
  • quash
    v 1: put down by force or intimidation; "The government quashes any attempt of an uprising"; "China keeps down her dissidents very efficiently"; "The rich landowners subjugated the peasants working the land" [syn: repress, quash, keep down, subdue, subjugate, reduce] 2: declare invalid; "The contract was annulled"; "void a plea" [syn: invalidate, annul, quash, void, avoid, nullify] [ant: formalise, formalize, validate]
  • slosh
    v 1: make a splashing sound; "water was splashing on the floor" [syn: splash, splosh, slosh, slush] 2: walk through mud or mire; "We had to splosh across the wet meadow" [syn: squelch, squish, splash, splosh, slosh, slop] 3: spill or splash copiously or clumsily; "slosh paint all over the walls" [syn: slosh, slush, slosh around, slush around]
  • squash
    n 1: any of numerous annual trailing plants of the genus Cucurbita grown for their fleshy edible fruits [syn: squash, squash vine] 2: edible fruit of a squash plant; eaten as a vegetable 3: a game played in an enclosed court by two or four players who strike the ball with long-handled rackets [syn: squash, squash racquets, squash rackets] v 1: to compress with violence, out of natural shape or condition; "crush an aluminum can"; "squeeze a lemon" [syn: squash, crush, squelch, mash, squeeze]
  • wash
    n 1: a thin coat of water-base paint 2: the work of cleansing (usually with soap and water) [syn: wash, washing, lavation] 3: the dry bed of an intermittent stream (as at the bottom of a canyon) [syn: wash, dry wash] 4: 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] 5: the flow of air that is driven backwards by an aircraft propeller [syn: slipstream, airstream, race, backwash, wash] 6: a watercolor made by applying a series of monochrome washes one over the other [syn: wash, wash drawing] 7: garments or white goods that can be cleaned by laundering [syn: laundry, wash, washing, washables] 8: any enterprise in which losses and gains cancel out; "at the end of the year the accounting department showed that it was a wash" v 1: clean with some chemical process [syn: wash, rinse] 2: cleanse (one's body) with soap and water [syn: wash, lave] 3: cleanse with a cleaning agent, such as soap, and water; "Wash the towels, please!" [syn: wash, launder] 4: move by or as if by water; "The swollen river washed away the footbridge" 5: be capable of being washed; "Does this material wash?" 6: admit to testing or proof; "This silly excuse won't wash in traffic court" 7: separate dirt or gravel from (precious minerals) 8: apply a thin coating of paint, metal, etc., to 9: remove by the application of water or other liquid and soap or some other cleaning agent; "he washed the dirt from his coat"; "The nurse washed away the blood"; "Can you wash away the spots on the windows?"; "he managed to wash out the stains" [syn: wash, wash out, wash off, wash away] 10: form by erosion; "The river washed a ravine into the mountainside" 11: make moist; "The dew moistened the meadows" [syn: moisten, wash, dampen] 12: wash or flow against; "the waves laved the shore" [syn: lave, lap, wash] 13: to cleanse (itself or another animal) by licking; "The cat washes several times a day"
  • whitewash
    n 1: a defeat in which the losing person or team fails to score 2: wash consisting of lime and size in water; used for whitening walls and other surfaces 3: a specious or deceptive clearing that attempts to gloss over failings and defects v 1: cover up a misdemeanor, fault, or error; "Let's not whitewash the crimes of Stalin"; "She tried to gloss over her mistakes" [syn: whitewash, gloss over, sleek over, hush up] 2: cover with whitewash; "whitewash walls" 3: exonerate by means of a perfunctory investigation or through biased presentation of data
  • tosh
    n 1: pretentious or silly talk or writing [syn: baloney, boloney, bilgewater, bosh, drool, humbug, taradiddle, tarradiddle, tommyrot, tosh, twaddle]
  • wish-wash
    n 1: any thin watery drink 2: nonsensical talk or writing [syn: folderol, rubbish, tripe, trumpery, trash, wish-wash, applesauce, codswallop]
  • gosh
  • outwash
  • dosh
  • losh
  • osh
  • paasch
  • raasch
  • trosch
  • antosh
  • mccosh
  • prakash
  • pugwash
  • rewash
  • prewash

See also eyewash definition and eyewash synonyms