| 单词 | backwash |
| 释义 | backwash (once / 43614 pages) n WORD FAMILY backwash: backwashes USAGE EXAMPLESAnd the backwash of grief followed their paths back home. Los Angeles Times(Dec 10, 2016) At a height of 8 feet, it creates a significant backwash and presents a formidable obstacle to fish trying to migrate upstream. Seattle Times(Nov 30, 2016) Shame hit, a cold backwash of elemental shame: something bad had been done to me, therefore I was bad. The New Yorker(Aug 11, 2016) 1n the wave that spreads behind a boat as it moves forward Syn|Hyper wake moving ridge, wave one of a series of ridges that moves across the surface of a liquid (especially across a large body of water) 2n the flow of air that is driven backwards by an aircraft propeller Syn|Hyper airstream, race, slipstream, wash flow any uninterrupted stream or discharge 3n the consequences of an event (especially a catastrophic event) Syn|Hyper aftermath, wake consequence, effect, event, issue, outcome, result, upshot a phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon |
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