utvaskes
Utvaskes is a present passive form of the Norwegian verb utvaske, meaning to wash out, wash away, or remove content by washing. As a grammatical form, utvaskes describes a subject undergoing a washing-out process. In Norwegian usage, the verb utvaske can refer to physical processes such as color fading, leaching of minerals from soil, or washing away pigments, and it can also be used in figurative contexts to describe things being erased or diminished by external forces. The passive form utvaskes is used to indicate that the subject experiences the wash-out without necessarily naming the agent, and in many constructions the passive is realized with the auxiliary blir (for example, fargen blir utvasket av solen).
Etymologically, utvaske combines ut- meaning out with vaske meaning to wash, producing a sense of removal by
In practical terms, utvaskes can describe a range of outcomes: clothing or textiles whose color is washed
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