whitewash, washing, stain, varnish; gilding, gold leaf. 18. slosh, swill, Brit. Inf. swipes, hogwash, slops, mess; mash, wort. -adj. 19. washable, launderable, wash and wear; preshrunk, shrink-resistant, Trademark. Sanforized; nonbleeding, bled, faded,
washed-out, adj. 1. faded, bleached, blanched, etiolated; colorless, lusterless, lackluster, dull, dead, drab, flat, mat.
2. Informal,
a. exhausted, spent, drained, SI. bushed, SI. pooped, SI. beat, SI. all in; dead-tired, dog-tired, bone-weary, dead one one's feet; tired out, worn out, played out, Inf fagged out, Inf tuckered out, Inf knocked out, Inf. wiped out, Inf. pooped out, SI. too pooped to pop. b. wan, pale, pallid, anemic; haggard, drawn, tired-looking, tired-eyed,
washed-up, adj. Informal, through, finished, SI. fini, SI. done for, SI. kaput, SI. shot, SI. SOL; over, all over, SI. all up.
waspish, adj. 1. resentful, spiteful, peevish, petu lant, querulous; touchy, testy, tetchy, thin-skinned, prickly, sensitive, oversensitive, hypersensitive, quick to take offense.
2. irritable, irascible, cranky, cross, cantankerous, feisty, huffish; splenetic, crusty, peppery; grouchy, crabby, grumpy, Inf. bitchy; ill-tempered, bad-tempered, temperamental, short-tempered, ill-humored, ill-natured, Inf. mean, Inf. ornery,
wassail, n. 1. toast, pledge, salute, salutation, cheer.
2. drinking bout, brannigan, drunk, potation, com-potation, bouse, guzzle, drunken carouse or revel, bacchanal, bacchanalia; spree, fling, bout, romp, carouse, carousal, revel; All SI. binge, bender, hellbender, bust, toot, tear, bat, jag, barhop, bar-crawl, Brit, pub-crawl.
3. celebration, gala, gala affair, Inf. shindig, SI. hot time.
-v. 4. carouse, revel, roister, make merry, cut loose, let loose, Inf. step out, whoop it up, SI. make whoopee; drink, tipple, tope, bouse, Inf booze, SI. hit the bottle or booze or sauce, SI. souse, SI. scoop a few, SI. knock a few back; go on a spree, make the rounds, SI. tie one on, SI. go on a drunk or binge or bender, SI. paint the town red, SI. barhop, SI. bar-crawl, Brit. SI. pub-crawl; debauch, dissipate, wanton, sow wild oats; overindulge, overdo, burn the candle at both ends.
5. toast, drink a toast to, drink to, pledge, drink or pledge the health of.
waste, v. 1. squander, fritter away, fool away, dissipate, lose, misuse, misspend; expend, consume, use up, drain, exhaust, deplete; throw away, burn up, run through, go through, SI. blow; disperse, scatter, spill, muddle away; splurge, lavish, play the profligate, SI. hang the expense; misapply, misemploy, overdraw, impoverish, spend recklessly; throw money away, spend money like water, throw good money after bad, play ducks and drakes with, spend money as if it grew on trees or were going out of style; (of time) kill, while away, pass.
2. wear away, erode, dwindle, eat away, gnaw away; reduce, diminish, decrease, lessen, lower, cut, cut back, shorten; ablate, corrode, wash away, rub away, disintegrate.
3. deteriorate, degenerate, worsen, regress; decline, fall, slip, go downhill, run down; decay, wither, atrophy, wear out, crumble, molder; fag, wilt, pine, languish, shrivel, shrink; emaciate, weaken, enfeeble, macerate, break down; perish, wane, ebb, die, subside, slump, slide; dry up, wizen, fade, droop, run to seed.
4. destroy, devastate, ruin, lay waste, demolish, wreck; ravage, pillage, plunder, sack, spoil, spoliate,