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

Matched Categories

1. • Appear
   • Carry
   • Refresh
   • Tire

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:0.0 / 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. 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.

2. Geoffrey Thomas from AirlineRatings.com:

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

3. Chris Havel:

   That kind of habitat attracts living animals even if it’s floating out in the ocean, we should not be surprised to continue to see debris from Japan wash up on the shores.

4. Chris Weston:

   It seems logical that they would want to see the wash up from this week's Federal Reserve meeting and hold the ability to be reactionary, if we see anything from Mr. Kuroda and the BOJ today, it will be setting the scene for additional measures if they so need.

5. Operations Allan Schwartz:

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

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