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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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... not even wash up for lunch, but picked her fodder from her pail with her companions. She smoked a convivial cigarette with the gang and was proud as a boy among grown-ups. She even wanted to be tough and was tempted to use ugly words ...

— The Cup of Fury - A Novel of Cities and Shipyards • Rupert Hughes

... are in hopes the saa may wash up some poor fellow that they may have the pleasure of hacking him ...

— Adrift in the Wilds - or, The Adventures of Two Shipwrecked Boys • Edward S. Ellis

... with which she greeted every familiar face. I explained to her what I wanted to do, apologizing for my slovenliness. She was all sympathetic attention, her eyes snapped with good-humored interest, and she told me to go back and take all the time I wanted to wash up. In a few minutes she sent me, by one of the waitresses, a fresh piece of soap, a comb, a bit of pumice-stone, a whisk-broom, a nail-file, a pair of curved nail-scissors, a tiny paper parcel containing some face-powder, and, wonder of wonders, a ...

— The Long Day - The Story of a New York Working Girl As Told by Herself • Dorothy Richardson

... fancy for joking these women possess. I had been describing a storm at Manchester-by-the-Sea and the splendor of the ocean. "Did you see the tea-leaves?" she asked, solemnly. "No," I replied. "That is strange," she said. "I fear you are not very observing. After every storm the tea-leaves still wash up all along Massachusetts Bay," alluding to the fact that loads of tea on ships were tossed over by the Americans during the quarrel with England ...

— As A Chinaman Saw Us - Passages from his Letters to a Friend at Home • Anonymous

... lot," she said with a laugh. "I did have an enamelled soup tureen I used for the potatoes, but the enamel chipped off a bit and I thought it might hurt the children if they swallowed it. So now we put the potatoes in the washing-basin and wash up in the tureen." ...

— Captivity • M. Leonora Eyles

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