peräaalto — meaning in English

English meaning

• wake verb To stop sleeping, or to rouse someone from sleep.
• wash verb To clean something using water, usually with soap.

Senses

peräaalto is used for these senses in English:

• wake (nautical) The path left behind a ship on the surface of the water.
• wash A piece of ground washed by the action of water, or sometimes covered and sometimes left dry; the shallowest part of a river, or arm of the sea; also, a bog; a marsh.

wake — full definition

1. verb To stop sleeping, or to rouse someone from sleep.
2. noun A gathering held before or after a funeral to remember the person who died.
3. noun The trail of disturbed water left behind a moving boat, or turbulence left behind anything moving through air or water.

wash — full definition

1. verb To clean something using water, usually with soap.
2. verb To wear away or carry something off through the force of moving water.
3. noun The act of washing, or a batch of laundry that has been washed together.
4. noun A result in which gains and losses cancel each other out, leaving no real net change.

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