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wash up

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wash someone or something up 
1. to clean up someone or something by washing. Please wash the baby up as long as you are changing the diaper. I'll wash up the baby. Sam will wash himself up before dinner.
2. [for water or the waves] to bring someone or something up onto the shore or beach. Look what the waves washed up! A bottle with a note in it! The waves washed a bottle up.
See also: up, wash

wash someone up

to terminate someone in something. This error is going to wash you up as an account executive. That washed me up. Problems like this have washed up quite a few careers.
See also: up, wash

wash up (for something)

to clean [oneself] up for something, such as a meal. Please wash up for dinner. Go and wash up!
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wash up
to clean your hands She told the children to wash up for dinner.
See also: up, wash

wash up (something) also wash something up

1. to be moved and left in another place by the flow of water Following the sinking of the ferry, a number of bodies washed up on shore. Scattered around the bridge is a lot of debris that washed up.
2. to clean the dishes after a meal Who's turn is it to wash up? I started washing up the supper dishes.
See also: up, wash


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This cost savings was coupled with an increase of time between wash ups and boil outs from 4 weeks to 5 weeks.
Regulators included these items as medical waste since both used and unused sharps present a public health hazard if they wash up on beaches.
 
 
 
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