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wear out completely
I'm beat
He was all washed up after the exam
This kind of work exhausts me -
be carried somewhere by water or as if by water
The body washed up on the beach -
wash one's face and hands
She freshened up in the bathroom -
wash dishes
I cook and my husband washes up after dinner -
carry somewhere (of water or current or waves)
The tide washed up the corpse
How To Use wash up In A Sentence
- If the tide was up, the limpid water would wash up against the sea defences, and the smaller sailing boats that infest the river would tack right up to the sea wall.
- So many ships have foundered along this coast, driven onto its reefs by storms or lured there by wreckers ' lights, that pieces from Spanish galleons still wash up with the tide.
- The highest of the spring tides might wash up all around the houseboat but it would never float again.
- It's his turn to wash up but he'll try and duck out of it.
- Why don't you learn to wash up, instead of walkin 'about talking like three-halfpennyworth of trash? Night Must Fall : a Play in Three Acts
- The vato stays back to wash up and get ready when everyone's gone.
- Gelatinous animals include more than just the medusa-like jellyfish that wash up on the beach - like comb jellies, which have a different architecture, and no stingers.
- Some one had to go round with the coals, wash up, sweep, scrub, polish, fetch and carry.
- Britain does itself no favors by complaining about a falling share price and lost dividends while eleven Americans lie dead, thousands of Gulf Coast residents have lost their livelihood, and innumerable wildlife wash up ashore drenched in BP guck. Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: BP, Gadhafi, and Britain's Oil Comeuppance
- We're out of ammonia and have had to move on to bicarb to wash up, which requires greater skill.
