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Meaning:
Noun:
- A channel produced by the erosion of a relatively soft surface by a sudden gush of water.
- An act of washing something out, or an appliance or device for doing so.
- A sporting fixture that could not be completed because of rain.
- medicine The cleaning of matter from a physiological system using a fluid.
- colloquial A disappointment or total failure; an unsuccessful person.
- meteorology The action whereby falling rainwater clean particles from the air.
- The aerodynamic effect of a small twist in the shape of an aircraft wing
Source: Wiktionary
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