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Wash up

verb

Wash one's face and hands. Synonym: lave.

Carry somewhere (of water or current or waves).

Wash dishes. Synonym: do the dishes.

Be carried somewhere by water or as if by water.

Wear out completely. Synonyms: beat, exhaust, tucker, tucker out. "I'm beat" , "He was all washed up after the exam"

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"Wash up" Quotes from Famous Books

... along the lane! She sprang to her feet, ran into the back kitchen, tied on her apron, hastily filled an earthenware bowl with water from the pump, and, carrying it back to the front kitchen, began to wash up the tea-things, making a busy household clatter as she slid ...

— Bessie Costrell • Mrs. Humphry Ward

... help you," cried Dick, "wash up the dishes," and he turned his back on the cupboard. ...

— Five Little Peppers and their Friends • Margaret Sidney

... it," replied Arthur. "We'd better lie low, and help wash up the plates, and when they're gone we can go for a ...

— The Master of the Shell • Talbot Baines Reed

... Niagara Falls, Whose waters go rumblin' and mumblin' and grumblin' And tearin' and stumblin' and bumblin' and tumblin' And foamin' and roarin' And plungin' and pourin' And wastin' the waters God gave to us creechers To wash down our liquor and wash up our feechers— Then what in the deuce Is the swish-bingled use O' keepin' them noisy old cataracts busy To give folks a headache and make ...

— The Wit and Humor of America, Volume VIII (of X) • Various

... fortunate than himself as Betsy had carried all their earnings safely ashore, stowed away in the voluminous folds of her dress. All day long the Captain, Betsy and Paul and the uninjured seaman, patrolled the beach in the hope that something valuable might wash up. But outside of a few articles of clothing and some casks, nothing came ashore. In the evening they gave it up in despair and returned to the house that had sheltered them the previous night. The next morning after another visit ...

— The Story of Paul Boyton - Voyages on All the Great Rivers of the World • Paul Boyton

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