washed-out
faded, especially from washing.
Informal.
weary; exhausted.
tired-looking; wan.
Origin of washed-out
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How to use washed-out in a sentence
In addition to all the debris that washed out, that takes a pretty big toll on the fish.
Washed out campaign posters of President Mohammed Morsi still hang on run-down buildings around the Sharqeyya governorate.
My third roommate (the first two washed out) was a soft-looking Mexican American who seemed to be failing everything.
We live in a washed-out PC world where nobody in government wants to say the wrong thing so they say nothing at all.
“In the West, you take a couple Valium, you get taken to the ER and washed out, and you go home,” Phillips told The Daily Beast.
If it be suspected that the stomach will not be empty, it should be washed out with water the evening before.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis | James Campbell ToddA German receiver can be washed out like a teacup, and the oil collected is of value, but a meerschaum should never be wetted.
Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce | E. R. Billings.When it was the bed of the stream, gold was being ground out, washed out and carried down stream from the quartz-gold veins above.
David Lannarck, Midget | George S. HarneyThey should be washed out and dried quickly after its application in order to make this method most effective.
The Boy Mechanic, Book 2 | VariousThere was Hale's little frame cottage and his name, half washed out, was over the wing that was still his office.
The Trail of the Lonesome Pine | John Fox, Jr.
British Dictionary definitions for washed out
faded or colourless
exhausted, esp when being pale in appearance
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Other Idioms and Phrases with washed-out
Faded in color; also, lacking animation. For example, This carpet is all washed out from the sun, or He looks all washed out. [Late 1700s; early 1800s] Also see wash out, def. 3.
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