The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word WASHOUT
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More clues leading to the result WASHOUT
- A loud cry after wife’s total failure
- Useless person with, initially, a reasonable chance?
- Total failure with a job the police go out on
- This is disappointing — you used to be sexy nurses
- Cancelled event with a yell
- Complete failure brings a yell after win initially
- Clean bowled? A complete failure
- Flop, with a cry
- Cry after Washington failure
- Failure was popular around university
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What does WASHOUT mean?
WASHOUT noun- An appliance designed to wash something out.
- The cleaning of matter from a physiological system using a fluid.
- A period between clinical treatments in which any medication delivered as the first treatment is allowed to wash out of the person before the second treatment begins.
- The action whereby falling rainwater clean particles from the air.
- A channel produced by the erosion of a relatively soft surface by a sudden gush of water.
- A breach in a road or railway caused by flooding.
- The cleaning of the inside of a (locomotive) boiler to remove scale (limescale).
- A disappointment or total failure; an unsuccessful person.
- A sporting fixture or other event that could not be completed because of rain.
- The aerodynamic effect of a small twist in the shape of an aircraft wing