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Definition of washed out adjective from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

washed out

adjective
 
/ˌwɒʃt ˈaʊt/
 
/ˌwɑːʃt ˈaʊt/
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  1. (of cloth, clothes or colours) no longer brightly coloured, often as a result of being washed many times
    • She didn't like jeans that looked too washed out.
    • a pair of washed-out old jeans
    • The walls were a washed-out blue colour.
  2. (of a person) pale and tired synonym exhausted
    • He always looks washed out at the end of the week.
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