The phrase "a backwash" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation where the effects of a previous action or event are felt again, often in a negative or unintended way.
Example: "The backwash of the economic crisis was felt in many sectors, leading to widespread layoffs."
Alternatives: "a backlash" or "an aftereffect".
Throughout the Spanish colonial era the Río de la Plata remained a backwash of the empire.
But with Hollywood now caught in a backwash, the question becomes: Where is the next big thing?
The stabilisation is caused by a better restoration of the permeability after a backwash and an enhanced backwash.
At which point, you will be left with no viable career and a backwash of hatred of a staggering acidity and volume.
It was the tiles Sue and I brought back from our honeymoon in Portugal, which we put in as a backwash to the kitchen sink.
Few locally believe the US withdrawal of combat troops from Afghanistan will help either, with deep fears of a backwash of militants from the conflict seeking new targets.
The Hurley Town and Country water filter is designed to last up to four years by means of a backwashing feature that reverses hot water through the filter, flushing out trapped particles.
The GO deposition also exhibits good stability when subjected to a backwashing pressure of 100,000 Pa and a cross-flow rate of 600 mL/min, which corresponds to a velocity of 14 cm/s and a Reynolds number of ~870.
Deep inequality, conflicts over land, a local history of sectarian violence, tensions between an alienated Muslim north and Christian south, a global backwash of violent conservative ideologies, poor education, atrocities committed by the security forces and many other factors have made recruitment easy.
Experiments were carried out with a dead-end bench-scale system operated at constant flux conditions including a hydraulic backwash cleaning procedure.
Shame hit, a cold backwash of elemental shame: something bad had been done to me; therefore I was bad.
