GARGLES Synonyms

• a brushing or rustling sound

• elegant and fashionable

• move with or cause to move with a whistling or hissing sound

• a thin coat of water-base paint

• the work of cleansing (usually with soap and water)

• the dry bed of an intermittent stream (as at the bottom of a canyon)

• the erosive process of washing away soil or gravel by water (as from a roadway)

• the flow of air that is driven backwards by an aircraft propeller

• a watercolor made by applying a series of monochrome washes one over the other

• garments or white goods that can be cleaned by laundering

• any enterprise in which losses and gains cancel out

• clean with some chemical process

• cleanse (one's body) with soap and water

• cleanse with a cleaning agent, such as soap, and water

• move by or as if by water

• be capable of being washed

• admit to testing or proof

• separate dirt or gravel from (precious minerals)

• apply a thin coating of paint, metal, etc., to

• remove by the application of water or other liquid and soap or some other cleaning agent

• form by erosion

• make moist

• wash or flow against

• wash by removing particles

• to cleanse (itself or another animal) by licking

• a medicated solution used for gargling and rinsing the mouth

• an ugly evil-looking old woman

• art characterized by an incongruous mixture of parts of humans and animals interwoven with plants

• distorted and unnatural in shape or size; abnormal and hideous

• ludicrously odd

• an ugly evil-looking old woman

• eellike cyclostome having a tongue with horny teeth in a round mouth surrounded by eight tentacles; feeds on dead or trapped fishes by boring into their bodies

• a liquid preparation used on wet hair to give it a tint

• the removal of soap with clean water in the final stage of washing

• the act of giving a light tint to the hair

• washing lightly without soap

• wash off soap or remaining dirt

• clean with some chemical process

• rinse one's mouth and throat with mouthwash