Wash
71wash up — you kids can wash up after dinner Syn: wash the dishes, do the dishes, clean up …
72wash — See automatic car wash and car wash …
73wash — [OE] Etymologically, to wash something is probably to clean it with ‘water’. Like German waschen, Dutch wasschen, and Swedish vaska, it goes back to a prehistoric Germanic *waskan, which seems to have been derived from *wat , the base which… …
74wash up — phr verb Wash up is used with these nouns as the subject: ↑tide, ↑whale …
75wash up — (Roget s Thesaurus II) I verb To cause the complete ruin or wreckage of: bankrupt, break down, cross up, demolish, destroy, finish, ruin, shatter, sink, smash, spoil, torpedo, undo, wrack2, wreck. Slang: total. Idiom: put the kibosh on. See HELP …
76wash — (dry wash) (colloquial: western USA) The broad, flat floored channel of an ephemeral stream, commonly with very steep to vertical banks cut in alluvium. Note: When channels reach intersect zones of ground water discharge they are more… …
77wash — See a wash …
78wash up — to clean your hands. She told the children to wash up for dinner …
79wash — I. v. a. 1. Cleanse by ablution. 2. Wet, moisten, fall on and moisten. 3. Wet, moisten, bathe, lave. 4. Overflow, fall on, dash against. 5. Waste, abrade, wash away. 6. Stain, tint, color. 7. Overlay ( …
80wash-up — /ˈwɒʃ ʌp/ (say wosh up) noun 1. → washing up (def. 1). 2. Colloquial the end result of a process: in the wash up, the game ended in a draw. 3. Colloquial a shuffle of playing cards …
