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Antonyms for wash upwash up

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  1. wash upverb

    Synonyms:
    do the washing-up, do the dishes

  2. wash upverb

    To clean the utensils, dishes etc. used in preparing and eating a meal.

    Dinner has just finished, so go and wash up.

    Synonyms:
    do the washing-up, do the dishes

  3. wash upverb

    To wash one's hands and/or face, often around mealtimes.

    Dinner is almost ready, so go and wash up.

    Synonyms:
    do the washing-up, do the dishes

  4. wash upverb

    To carry an object to land.

    The whale was washed up on the beach.

    Synonyms:
    do the dishes, do the washing-up

  5. wash upverb

    Something or somebody that has once had it's peak of greatness far too long ago, and is now still being over used, over played, and is still pushed through the media, even though it's gotten extremely old, bland, worn out, and is just sad to still see around

    Synonyms:
    do the dishes, do the washing-up

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Princeton's WordNet0.0 / 0 votes

  1. wash up, laveverb

    wash one's face and hands

    "She freshened up in the bathroom"

    Synonyms:
    tucker, tucker out, exhaust, wash, do the dishes, lap, lave, beat

  2. wash upverb

    carry somewhere (of water or current or waves)

    "The tide washed up the corpse"

    Synonyms:
    do the dishes, tucker, lave, tucker out, exhaust, beat

  3. wash up, do the dishesverb

    wash dishes

    "I cook and my husband washes up after dinner"

    Synonyms:
    do the dishes, tucker, lave, tucker out, exhaust, beat

  4. wash upverb

    be carried somewhere by water or as if by water

    "The body washed up on the beach"

    Synonyms:
    do the dishes, tucker, lave, tucker out, exhaust, beat

  5. exhaust, wash up, beat, tucker, tucker outverb

    wear out completely

    "This kind of work exhausts me"; "I'm beat"; "He was all washed up after the exam"

    Synonyms:
    baffle, exhaust, get, eat up, stick, crush, vanquish, play out, expel, eat, mystify, flummox, release, beat, tire, outwit, circumvent, tick, nonplus, trounce, lave, ticktack, outfox, use up, drum, beat up, bunk, dumbfound, tucker out, flap, perplex, beat out, gravel, thump, do the dishes, run through, amaze, thrum, ticktock, puzzle, quiver, wipe out, pound, work over, pulsate, bewilder, overreach, discharge, run down, tucker, vex, stupefy, sap, eject, consume, outsmart, deplete, pose, scramble, shell

How to use wash up in a sentence?

  1. Greg Pauly:

    I never would have thought that a sea snake would wash up that far up north.

  2. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration:

    National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said this bottlenose dolphin was speared to death in May and washed up on shore on Upper Captiva Island in Florida. A reward has been posted for information in the case. ( NOAA) HUNDREDS OF DOLPHINS STRANDED, WASH UP DEAD ALONG US GULF COAST, OFFICIALS SAY The bottlenose dolphin washed up on shore on Upper Captiva Island in May. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said the dolphin was known to area biologists when he was alive. He was last observed swimming around fishing boats and was seen with begging dolphins.

  3. Operations Allan Schwartz:

    Modelling suggests that debris such as this could continue to wash-up over the coming days.

  4. Geoffrey Thomas from AirlineRatings.com:

    It was a matter of waiting for something to wash up.

  5. Mohammed Misrati:

    The corpses wash up on shore and our volunteers are having to move the bodies and manage the remains of the dead.

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