Synonyms for wash up
wash up

WiktionaryRate these synonyms:5.0 / 1 vote

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

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms: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

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1. • Appear
   • Carry
   • Refresh
   • Tire

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How to use wash up in a sentence?

1. Jim Mooers:

   We’ve had a lot of dead animals wash up here, you know, otters and raccoons, things like that over the years, but never a dead whale. We’ve had dead people wash up, but never a whale.

2. 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.

3. Mohammed Misrati:

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

4. Geoffrey Thomas from AirlineRatings.com:

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

5. Robin Robertson:

   It's about the right time for something. It depends on where it went in, but it's about the right time for debris to wash up.