wash up

See also: washup

English

Pronunciation

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Verb

wash up (third-person singular simple present washes up, present participle washing up, simple past and past participle washed up)

1. (British, transitive, intransitive) To clean the utensils, dishes etc. used in preparing and eating a meal.

   You wash up tonight and I'll dry.

   I'm not washing up all these dishes.

2. (US, intransitive) To wash one's hands or face, often around mealtimes.

   Dinner is almost ready, so go and wash up.

3. (transitive, of water) To carry (an object) to land.

   The tide washes up a lot of driftwood.

   The whale was washed up on the beach.

4. (intransitive) To be carried by water to land.

   Some dangerous chemicals washed up on the beach.

5. (intransitive, by extension) To arrive in a place; to end up somewhere.
   • 2009, Joe Ambrose, Gimme Danger: The Story of Iggy Pop:

     Ron Asheton also washed up in LA, jamming with one-time Stooge Jimmy Recca and Amboy Dukes drummer K. J. Knight.

6. (slang, transitive, African-American Vernacular) To beat up (someone).

Synonyms

• (clean utensils, dishes, etc.): do the dishes, do the washing-up

Derived terms

• washup
• wash-up period

 

Translations

clean utensils, dishes, etc. — see do the dishes

wash one's hands and/or face (US)

• Azerbaijani: əl-üzünü yumaq
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 洗臉／洗脸 (zh) (xǐliǎn) (to wash face), 洗手 (zh) (xǐshǒu) (to wash hands)

• Czech: umýt ruce
• Dutch: zich opfrissen, zich wassen
• Finnish: peseytyä (fi)
• French: se laver (fr), se laver les mains (to wash hands)
• German: sich waschen (de), Hände waschen (to wash hands)
• Hungarian: mosakszik (hu), megmosakszik (hu), kezet mos, bemosakszik (hu) (medical)
• Japanese: 洗面する (ja) (せんめんする, senmen suru), 手を洗う (てをあらい, te o arau)
• Macedonian: мие (mie), измива (izmiva)
• Russian: умыва́ться (ru) impf (umyvátʹsja), умы́ться (ru) pf (umýtʹsja) (to wash face and hands), мыть ру́ки impf (mytʹ rúki) (to wash hands) помы́ть ру́ки pf (pomýtʹ rúki)
• Swedish: tvätta händerna, ansiktet (sv)

of water, to carry (an object) to land

• Hungarian: kimos (hu), partra mos, partra vet

be carried on to land by water

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 冲刷 (zh) (chōngshuā)

• Finnish: huuhtoutua
• German: aufspülen
• Irish: anspülen
• Italian: spiaggiare
• Maori: hōiriiri
• Russian: быть вы́несенным на бе́рег (bytʹ výnesennym na béreg), быть приби́тым к бе́регу (bytʹ pribítym k béregu)
• Swedish: spola upp

Anagrams

• Upshaw, upwash, wha-ups, whasup, whaups