MEANING
Made clean or fresh-looking by rainfall.
Use it for
Words that belong together
- rain-washed streets
- a rain-washed landscape
On the page
The rain-washed roofs shone beneath a brief opening in the clouds.
Nearby words
Word forms
- Base
- rain-washed
Usage notes
Primary category: setting / environment. Forms: Normally non-gradable; no ordinary comparative or superlative. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: setting, description. Commonness: moderately common.
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