backwash   (TTS Sound)

The noun backwash has 3 senses

• slipstream, airstream, race, backwash, wash -- (the flow of air that is driven backwards by an aircraft propeller)


• aftermath, wake, backwash -- (the consequences of an event (especially a catastrophic event); "the aftermath of war"; "in the wake of the accident no one knew how many had been injured")


• wake, backwash -- (the wave that spreads behind a boat as it moves forward; "the motorboat's wake capsized the canoe")