washing out

The phrase “washing out” has 3 syllables: wash-ing out

It's pronounced as /ˈwɒʃ.ɪŋ aʊt/


What is synonym and antonym for washing out?

In the thesaurus, “washing out” has 113 synonyms and 70 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for washing out along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for washing out

  • bankrupt
  • blanching
  • bleaching
  • blenching
  • bombing
  • breaking
  • brightening
  • burning out
  • busting
  • collapsing
  • coming a cropper
  • coming to grief
  • coming up empty
  • crashing
  • cratering
  • crumbling
  • debilitating
  • declining
  • decolorizing
  • deluging
  • destroyed
  • dimming
  • doing in
  • doing up
  • douching
  • dousing
  • dowsing
  • draining
  • drenching
  • dulling
  • dying on the vine
  • enervating
  • enfeebling
  • engulfing
  • etiolating
  • exhausting
  • fading
  • fagging
  • failed
  • failing
  • falling flat
  • falling short
  • fatiguing
  • flaming out
  • flooding
  • flopping
  • floundering
  • flowing
  • flunking
  • flushing
  • folding
  • foundering
  • frazzling
  • frosting
  • futureless
  • going under
  • gushing
  • harassing
  • hopeless
  • hosing
  • imploding
  • inauspicious
  • inundating
  • irrigating
  • kaput
  • kaputt
  • kerflooey
  • killing
  • knocking out
  • laying an egg
  • lightening
  • matting
  • miscarrying
  • misfiring
  • missing
  • no-good
  • outwearing
  • paling
  • rinsing
  • ruined
  • rushing
  • sapping
  • saturating
  • self-destructing
  • silvering
  • sinking
  • skidding
  • slipping
  • sloshing
  • sluicing
  • slumping
  • snowing
  • soaking
  • splashing
  • streaming
  • striking out
  • struggling
  • swamping
  • tanking
  • tiring
  • unpromising
  • unsuccessful
  • waning
  • washing
  • wasting
  • weakening
  • wearing
  • wearing out
  • wearing to a frazzle
  • wearying
  • whitening
  • whitewashing
  • wrecked

Antonyms for washing out

  • activating
  • blackening
  • blotching
  • booming
  • burnishing
  • checkering
  • clicking
  • coloring
  • coming
  • coming off
  • cooking
  • dappling
  • darkening
  • daubing
  • deepening
  • delivering
  • discoloring
  • dyeing
  • embrowning
  • energizing
  • flecking
  • flourishing
  • going
  • going over
  • growing
  • invigorating
  • marbling
  • mottling
  • painting
  • palmy
  • panning out
  • patterning
  • pigmenting
  • polishing
  • polychroming
  • prevailing
  • promising
  • prospering
  • prosperous
  • rejuvenating
  • relaxing
  • resting
  • roaring
  • robust
  • shading
  • shining
  • specking
  • speckling
  • splotching
  • spotting
  • staining
  • streaking
  • strengthening
  • striating
  • striping
  • succeeding
  • successful
  • tarnishing
  • thriving
  • tincturing
  • tingeing
  • tinging
  • tinting
  • triumphant
  • triumphing
  • unwinding
  • variegating
  • vitalizing
  • winning
  • working out

Example Sentences

  • The heavy rain is washing out the dirt from the roads.
  • She is washing out the stains from her favorite dress.
  • The flood is washing out the bridge, making travel impossible.
  • Too much sunlight is washing out the colors of the photograph.
  • He is washing out his paintbrushes after finishing his artwork.

On this page you'll find 183 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to washing out, such as: activating, bankrupt, blackening, blanching, bleaching, blenching, blotching.

Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.

Related Words

damaging

  • abusing
  • adverse
  • afflicting
  • aggrieving
  • annihilating
  • bad
  • baleful
  • baneful
  • banging up
  • bashing
  • battering
  • blemishing
  • blighting
  • bloodying
  • blowing out
  • botching
  • breaking
  • bruising
  • clobbering
  • compromising
  • contagious
  • contusing
  • crabbing
  • creasing
  • crippling
  • crushing
  • cutting
  • dangerous
  • dashing
  • deadly
  • decimating
  • defacing
  • deleterious
  • demolishing
  • denting
  • desolating
  • destroying
  • destructive
  • deteriorating
  • detrimental
  • devastating
  • dinging
  • dinting
  • disabling
  • disadvantageous
  • disfiguring
  • doing in
  • endamaging
  • enervating
  • enfeebling
  • eroding
  • evil
  • fatal
  • flawing
  • gashing
  • goring
  • grazing
  • hamstringing
  • harmful
  • harming
  • hazardous
  • hostile
  • hurtful
  • hurting
  • ill
  • impairing
  • imperiling
  • imperilling
  • infectious
  • infective
  • inimical
  • injuring
  • injurious
  • insidious
  • jeopardizing
  • killer
  • lacerating
  • laming
  • laying up
  • lethal
  • maiming
  • malignant
  • maltreating
  • mangling
  • marring
  • menacing
  • mischievous
  • mutilating
  • nasty
  • nicking
  • nocent
  • nocuous
  • noisome
  • noxious
  • ominous
  • parlous
  • perilous
  • pernicious
  • pestiferous
  • pestilent
  • pestilential
  • poisonous
  • prejudicial
  • pulverizing
  • queering
  • razing
  • risky
  • ruining
  • ruinous
  • scalding
  • scarring
  • scathing
  • scourging
  • scouring
  • scraping
  • shattering
  • sinister
  • smashing
  • spoiling
  • straining
  • tarnishing
  • tearing
  • tearing down
  • threatening
  • tormenting
  • torturing
  • totaling
  • totalling
  • undermining
  • unfriendly
  • unhealthful
  • unhealthy
  • unsafe
  • unsound
  • unwholesome
  • venomous
  • vitiating
  • washing out
  • wasting
  • weakening
  • wicked
  • wiping out
  • wounding
  • wrecking

jading

  • annoying
  • arid
  • aseptic
  • barren
  • blah
  • blank
  • boring
  • bothersome
  • burning out
  • colorless
  • common
  • commonplace
  • cumbersome
  • debilitating
  • dejecting
  • demoralizing
  • disabling
  • discouraging
  • disheartening
  • dispiriting
  • doing in
  • drab
  • draining
  • dreary
  • drudging
  • dry
  • dull
  • dullish
  • dusty
  • earthbound
  • enervating
  • enfeebling
  • exhausting
  • fagging
  • fatiguing
  • flat
  • gray
  • grey
  • heavy
  • ho-hum
  • humdrum
  • inanimate
  • irksome
  • irritating
  • jejune
  • leaden
  • longsome
  • lumbering
  • mind-numbing
  • monochromatic
  • monotonous
  • numbing
  • old
  • ordinary
  • pallid
  • palling
  • pedantic
  • pedestrian
  • pleasureless
  • plodding
  • pokey
  • poky
  • ponderous
  • prosaic
  • prosy
  • putting to sleep
  • slow
  • soggy
  • spiritless
  • stale
  • sterile
  • stodgy
  • stuffy
  • stupid
  • suspenseless
  • tame
  • tedious
  • tepid
  • tiresome
  • tiring
  • undramatic
  • uneventful
  • unexceptional
  • unexciting
  • unimaginative
  • uninspiring
  • uninteresting
  • unnewsworthy
  • unrewarding
  • unsensational
  • unspectacular
  • unsurprising
  • vapid
  • washing out
  • wearing
  • wearing out
  • wearisome
  • weary
  • wearying

fading

fagging

  • attacking
  • banging away
  • breaking
  • burning out
  • busting
  • debilitating
  • digging in
  • doing in
  • doing up
  • draining
  • driving
  • drudging
  • eking out
  • endeavoring
  • enervating
  • enfeebling
  • essaying
  • exercising
  • exerting
  • exhausting
  • fatiguing
  • frazzling
  • grubbing
  • harassing
  • humping
  • hustling
  • killing
  • knocking out
  • knuckling down
  • laboring
  • moiling
  • outwearing
  • overexerting
  • overworking
  • pitching in
  • plodding
  • plowing
  • plugging
  • putting out
  • sapping
  • scrabbling
  • scratching
  • slaving
  • slogging
  • straining
  • striving
  • struggling
  • sweating
  • sweating blood
  • tiring
  • toiling
  • travailing
  • trudging
  • trying
  • tugging
  • wading
  • washing out
  • wasting
  • weakening
  • wearing
  • wearing out
  • wearing to a frazzle
  • wearying
  • working

failing

  • acting up
  • blemish
  • blind spot
  • blot
  • bombing
  • breaking
  • breaking down
  • chagrining
  • cheating
  • collapsing
  • coming a cropper
  • coming to grief
  • coming up empty
  • corruption
  • crashing
  • cratering
  • crumbling
  • cutting out
  • debased
  • debauched
  • debilitated
  • decadent
  • decayed
  • decaying
  • deceiving
  • declining
  • defaulting
  • defeated
  • defect
  • deficiency
  • deficient
  • degenerate
  • degenerating
  • degraded
  • deluding
  • demerit
  • demoralized
  • depraved
  • depravity
  • dereliction
  • deteriorating
  • disappointing
  • discontenting
  • disenchanting
  • disgruntling
  • disillusioning
  • displeasing
  • disregarding
  • dissatisfying
  • dissipated
  • dissolute
  • distressing
  • drawback
  • drooping
  • dying
  • dying on the vine
  • effete
  • emaciating
  • enervate
  • enervated
  • enfeebled
  • error
  • evil
  • fading
  • failure
  • faint
  • falling flat
  • falling short
  • fault
  • feeble
  • feet of clay
  • fizzling
  • flagging
  • flaming out
  • flaw
  • flopping
  • floundering
  • flunking
  • foible
  • folding
  • forgetting
  • foundering
  • frail
  • frailty
  • giving out
  • going
  • going under
  • ignoring
  • immoral
  • immorality
  • imperfection
  • imploding
  • inadequate
  • infirmity
  • insufficient
  • jamming
  • lagging
  • languid
  • languishing
  • laying an egg
  • letting down
  • malfunctioning
  • minus
  • miscarriage
  • miscarrying
  • misfiring
  • misfortune
  • missing
  • missing out on
  • mocking
  • neglecting
  • nit
  • omitting
  • overlooking
  • overpassing
  • overrefined
  • overripe
  • passing over
  • precious
  • pretermitting
  • rotting
  • running down
  • sagging
  • sapped
  • scant
  • scanty
  • scarce
  • self-destructing
  • short
  • shortcoming
  • shy
  • sin
  • sinfulness
  • sinking
  • skidding
  • skipping
  • sliding
  • slighting
  • slipping
  • slumping
  • soft
  • soft spot
  • spot
  • sputtering
  • stain
  • stalling
  • striking out
  • struggling
  • tanking
  • unavailing
  • unprosperous
  • unsuccessful
  • unsufficient
  • unthriving
  • upsetting
  • vain
  • vice
  • waning
  • want
  • wanting
  • washed-up
  • washing out
  • wasted
  • weak
  • weak point
  • weakened
  • weakening
  • weakness
  • wearing out
  • wheezing
  • wickedness
  • wilting
  • wimpy
  • withering
  • yielding

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