washing away

The water pressure the ships cause contributes to washing away the mud particles in which the poles are planted and weakens them.

“We tend to say, slavery: bad; 1865: taken care of,” he tells me, wiping his hands dismissively as if washing away the scourge.

Abstersion, abs-ter′shun, n. act of cleansing or washing away impurities.

A root which was exposed to view, through the washing away of the superjacent soil, measured 110 feet in length.

Although the land slopes, the mat made by the grass roots will keep it from washing away.

A force within them, and yet quite beyond them, seemed slowly and pitilessly washing away the adamant of their oath.

First in the ceremony was washing away his white blood and, it seemed to the boy, at least a part of his skin as well.