To be deserving or worthy.
To deserve, to earn.
Usually in the plural form the merits: the substantive rightness or wrongness of a legal argument, a lawsuit, etc., as opposed to technical matters such as the admissibility of evidence or points of legal procedure; (by extension) the overall good or bad quality, or rightness or wrongness, of some other thing.
A claim to commendation or a reward.
A mark or token of approbation or to recognize excellence.
Something deserving or worthy of positive recognition or reward.
The sum of all the good deeds that a person does which determines the quality of the person's next state of existence and contributes to the person's growth towards enlightenment.
An overwhelming victory; a landslide.
An appliance designed to wash something out.
The cleaning of matter from a physiological system using a fluid.
The cleaning of the inside of a (locomotive) boiler to remove scale (limescale).
A breach in a road or railway caused by flooding.
A period between clinical treatments in which any medication delivered as the first treatment is allowed to wash out of the person before the second treatment begins.
A disappointment or total failure; an unsuccessful person.
The aerodynamic effect of a small twist in the shape of an aircraft wing.
A channel produced by the erosion of a relatively soft surface by a sudden gush of water.
The action whereby falling rainwater clean particles from the air.
A sporting fixture or other event that could not be completed because of rain.