wash up

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Definition
  1. Verb (phrasal verb):
    • To clean the dishes, cutlery, and other utensils after a meal: This is the primary meaning in British English, referring to the act of washing dishes after eating.
    • To be carried onto the shore by water: Used to describe something (often an object or a body) that is deposited on a beach or riverbank by the action of waves or currents.
    • To wash one's face and hands: A less common meaning, referring to the act of cleaning oneself, typically before a meal or after waking.
    • To be completely exhausted or finished; to be ruined or no longer successful: An idiomatic meaning indicating a state of being worn out, defeated, or having reached the end of one's usefulness or career.
Usage Examples
  • Verb (cleaning dishes):
    • After we finish dinner, could you help me wash up?
    • It's your turn to wash up tonight.
  • Verb (carried to shore):
    • Several pieces of driftwood washed up on the beach after the storm.
    • The missing boat finally washed up on a remote island.
  • Verb (washing face/hands):
    • Go and wash up before we sit down to eat.
  • Verb (exhausted/ruined):
    • After running the marathon, I was completely washed up.
    • Many considered the actor to be washed up after his last few films failed.
Advanced Usage
  • "to be all washed up": To be completely finished, ruined, or exhausted.
    • After the scandal, his political career was all washed up.
  • The meaning is highly dependent on context and regional usage (e.g., "wash up" meaning "do the dishes" is chiefly British).
Variants and Related Words
  • Wash (verb): To clean with water and, typically, soap.
  • Washing-up (noun, British English): The act of washing dishes; the dirty dishes to be washed.
    • I'll do the washing-up.
Synonyms
  • For cleaning dishes: Do the dishes, clean up.
  • For carried to shore: Be deposited, be cast up.
  • For exhausted: Worn out, spent, done in, finished.
  • For ruined: Done for, finished, over.
Related Phrasal Verbs
  • Wash out: To remove something by washing; to cancel or abandon (an event) due to rain; to fail or be eliminated from a course or competition.
    • The stain will wash out easily.
    • The picnic was washed out by the thunderstorm.
  • Wash away: To remove or carry away by the action of water.
    • The flood washed away several cars.
Related Idioms
  • Come out in the wash: To be resolved eventually; for the truth to become clear in time.
    • Don't worry about the details now; it will all come out in the wash.
Verb
  1. wear out completely
    • This kind of work exhausts me
    • I'm beat
    • He was all washed up after the exam
  2. be carried somewhere by water or as if by water
    • The body washed up on the beach
  3. wash dishes
    • I cook and my husband washes up after dinner
  4. carry somewhere (of water or current or waves)
    • The tide washed up the corpse
  5. wash one's face and hands
    • She freshened up in the bathroom

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