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    1. Jorma took the cook pot she'd mixed the batter in to the lake to wash out


    2. Luke: 7:38: And stood at his feet behind him weeping, and began to wash his feet with tears, and did wipe them with


    3. Always thoroughly wash your face and your hands after use


    4. Wash off all fruits and vegetables before eating!


    5. Wash hands after use


    6. He found a pond to wash the blood away, but the insects thrived in shallow water


    7. water can be sprayed from a hose to wash the ants off the tree


    8. Wash your hands, and follow the instructions carefully


    9. Wash with water asap


    10. It ended where the wash ended and fanned out over dry sand looking across the basin floor at the encroaching dark

    11. ‘It will all come out in the wash, Liz, honest


    12. wash me, and i will be whiter than snow” (**Psalm 51:7)


    13. But you, when you fast, anoint your head and wash your face,


    14. candles that, in this simulacrum of past glories, illuminated the stone in a wash of


    15. Ridges of crumbling stone and cement bit into the thin skin covering my knees and I waited, letting the reality of this simple and basic reaction to the physical world wash through me


    16. I’ll just go and wash my hands – won’t keep you a moment


    17. ‘How about I whisk you off to a nice pub for some lunch instead?’ he countered ‘Assuming I can use your bathroom facilities to wash some of this dust off my hands, that is


    18. Afterwards, I help Nick wash up


    19. I go and wash my face trying to restore some normality – a glance in the mirror confirms the fact that I look a mess, but I plead a headache as I go from house to house checking everyone is okay


    20. Through it all, through each and every one of these long drawn out days, I let a sense of self-pity wash through me

    21. When the time came, when the door opened and the habitual scrape of the tray announced wash time, I sat there in morose silence, staring at the wall


    22. We hustled through the, by now, usual steps: a rapid and perfunctory wash, followed by a hasty breakfast of bread and water


    23. "We have to come back thru here on the way out," Ava said, "You don't want to wash out something and have someone waiting for you


    24. He has washed us, as you would wash a sacrifice, and He has placed us upon that same altar that we should live according to a different mentality


    25. I don't think you'll get hurt in the nest, other than having to wash whatever you were sitting on at the time


    26. The walls, like those in the corridor below, were hewn out of huge blocks of solid rock and the space was illuminated by the soft glow of candles, candles that, in this simulacrum of past glories, illuminated the stone in a wash of yellow and amber


    27. used to wash hair and there are blow driers, curling irons


    28. “Bring down your clothes and I will put them in the wash


    29. "No, Yoonbarla, Knume, the 51st, and most of all Myimpaden and the gallons of golden wash that I consumed there


    30. The water skins were OK, the tent was salvageable and so was most of the clothing but they had to wash most of everything again

    31. It is true that people can never wash away years but skin creams can help the skin


    32. ’ Joris went on, ‘I suppose we could use some of that ale to wash it out a little … ‘


    33. Noisily, I devour the bacon, egg and tomatoey potatoes and wash it all down with two cups of tepid coffee


    34. and the sounds of the crowd wash over her


    35. ‘I’d better wash this one out, we might need it


    36. To prepare this drink, and it need not be unpalatable if you flavour it well, wash four or five fairly large potatoes but do not peel them


    37. shaNai came out at the same time to wash out the bearings in a few pulleys


    38. And yet, before surrendering myself to the unknown, I wanted to walk along the sand with half-closed eyes and let the cooling waves wash my tired feet, to fill my palms and contain some of that wrinkled and wizened sea, and leave my footprints there with no others in sight


    39. ‘Lady, would you like me to help you wash your hair?’


    40. After all, how distant can you be with a man who has wound bandages round your upper leg? We debate whether I should put my stained hosen back on again or not – opting to leave the clean ones for tomorrow … I’ll have to wash this pair out as soon as I get the chance

    41. But after quite a while, to everyone's dismay, the big man reappeared looking as though he'd been dousing himself under the hose Nikos used to wash his car, maybe to sober up


    42. Sounds are amplified inside the tunnel and the gentle wash of the water against the barge takes on an ominous tone, at least that is how it feels to me


    43. We are still laughing as Alastair comes into the kitchen to wash his hands


    44. I rolled onto my stomach, allowing the water to wash and revive me, pulling myself forward over the pebbles like a lizard, sliding down into the water past the boulders, keeping as near to the bottom as I could and then turning, and looking skyward through sparkling shafts of sunlight beaming through my open fingers


    45. In particular she asked each fair maid if she would wash her son’s crinkly boxer shorts and diamond pattern ankle socks


    46. Standing under the shower, I let the water cascade over my body … trying to wash away the impact of all this fast-moving action


    47. Your turn to wash up tonight, Sally


    48. I muse over that while I wash up


    49. ‘I enjoyed helping Alastair wash the cars this morning,’ He commented conversationally, ‘He showed me how to wax them properly


    50. Rob flaps his hands at both of us as if to wash his hands of two such romantic idiots!














































    1. Clothes can be washed,


    2. thou gave me no water for my feet: but she hath washed


    3. eyes; DE is like millions of microscopic razor blades, and should be washed out with water immediately


    4. How could I resist? When I washed my hair the bathtub would be filled


    5. "This ion storm has washed out the portables down there, but that ex she's running around with has an optical ground station, let me try that


    6. washed his hands in the ethereal mists of space and willed the skies to peace


    7. Heart-pounding tension washed through the man in the cell, who sat huddled and


    8. Before I ate I went down to the bathroom, washed and sluiced, and tried to rub my teeth clean with my fingers


    9. Even as the thought skittered through my feeble mind, even though I instinctively understood that having fresh clothes meant investment in my life as a hostage by my captors, still I relished the simple aromas of washed cotton


    10. Then the real meaning of The Kid’s words washed through my soul, draining every ounce of my strength

    11. Her face was still full of fear and a smile was all he could manage then before her face washed out in the glare from the alien reactor’s detonation


    12. Nick comes over mid-morning by which time I have washed up the glasses and stowed the empty bottles in the recycling box


    13. After the living nightmare of the last month, I feel relatively normal, completely washed out, but normal


    14. I washed dutifully because I wanted always to be presentable


    15. I washed feebly, forgetting to shampoo my hair, and when I returned to the cell I sat on my mattress and picked idly at my food


    16. The soldier took handfuls of water from the bucket and washed his face


    17. He has washed us, as you would wash a sacrifice, and He has placed us upon that same altar that we should live according to a different mentality


    18. Lylas’ long hair as she washed the blood from his long locks


    19. And so it was that the God washed away his immortality in the pool of


    20. (washed and finely chopped)

    21. were washed away when she looked at the contended


    22. my washed hair would then be straightened, then the clothes hair and the rest of our body


    23. plaid in delicacy, washed out grays and pinks,


    24. in the fibre of the grey washed pillowcases


    25. washed across the fanned out blue of a sunny afternoon


    26. Cosmicblasto and Catwhiskers clothes had been washed and


    27. They washed him off and bandaged his shoulder up and got him settled in the bed


    28. She washed up and brushed her teeth and changed her clothing


    29. Washed on to white gloss


    30. He finished his business and washed up

    31. He closed the door and took a pee, washed up and then went out to the bed


    32. He washed up and decided to call it a night before things got out of control


    33. They washed and shaved, made themselves feel fresh and good


    34. She went to the sink and washed her hands and noticed the coke on the counter


    35. ‘You sound pretty washed out


    36. Nuran had a lot of the same, the squint, more tan than burn but she had washed the dust out her hair, leaving it honey-brown and wavy


    37. I was washed out, panting my way back up like an old dog stumbling through the rubble, watching every step, until I came to the threshold where I almost bumped into a couple of men blocking the doorway


    38. I'd knock you off your chair right now if I hadn't just washed my hands


    39. Later, much later, walking back along the lane to the kloster, I feel washed out and emotionally drained though in a strange way something has changed … healed almost


    40. These colors will give you a washed out and pasty look, leaving you with an aura

    41. ‘They are washed and dyed over there before being brought through to here and spun


    42. She took the screaming baby and washed her up also and prepared her for her mother


    43. The family ate supper in tired silence, after which Helen washed up, Ken accompanied Lucy to the main road and Alan lay down on his bed with a motorbike magazine and the latest hard-ass bass lines thumping through his stereo headphones


    44. the four washed mugs on the draining board, nearly fainting with


    45. He rabbits on suggesting all sorts of things and gradually normality is resumed … by the time he parks in the drive of the house I’m more or less on an even keel … if feeling totally washed out


    46. ‘Ben’s awake,’ Gary said, a short while later, coming into the kitchen washed and dressed


    47. stood on a kitchen chair and washed all of the pots


    48. He sat there thru it, so he must have understood that she meant she would do it only if he washed


    49. The crowd couldn’t actually see him as she washed him


    50. This soldier was a pretty good looking guy and quite a pleasant lay now that he’d been washed, she knew she was too blotto to enjoy it, but she wanted it to be fun for him













































    1. Through His grace, He forgives us and washes


    2. He searches through the mud, finds the unripe papaya, and washes it off


    3. ’ I hesitate as the possibility washes over me, ‘… could he?’


    4. There were a few wagon ruts going this way, but at half the washes they had to have the kedas dig to make ramps for the wheels


    5. The Blood of Jesus washes away all sin and destroys the memory of


    6. His blood cleanses us, washes away


    7. one who never washes up or empties the bin


    8. ‘Did you sleep okay?’ I asked as he quickly washes his face and runs a comb through his hair


    9. The water is starting to sweep across the deck, a surge of chilly water washes over the top of my boots, soaking my socks … urghhh!


    10. Alexis turned and pointed to the blackening sky in the west, breathless he screamed, 'Did you hear that boss? Did you hear the snorting of her holy horses? She washes the flecks of sweat from their mouths as they champ the bit and cleans the clotted foam

    11. Washes of blue light drench the rendered stonework of the shops and banks on Bideford High Street


    12. The nurse shows Billy to the gentleman's toilet where he washes


    13. There is usually a bottle of shampoo lying around in the bathroom that he can nick a couple of washes out of


    14. Ted zips and washes his hands, drying them on rapidly disintegrating toilet paper rather than using the roll of pull down towelling on the wall


    15. We didn’t operate the car washes, although we retained some control over them, as you’ll see


    16. sold the franchises and worked out the real estate deals while other people ran the car washes and the gas stations


    17. Young women at Robo Car Washes wore eye-catching costumes when the


    18. “Naw, it’s just another of those damn Robo car washes,” said a


    19. At the end of our stint we had 15 car washes in Vancouver,


    20. the car washes, Lou Dallas, was in business with people who were

    21. dioxide, the caffeine washes off when the water and co2 is drained off


    22. Change it after six washes or wash it in Mosquito repellent


    23. Wind rushes over the lip of the hole and washes over me, and I close my eyes


    24. I stand with the towel as Susan washes up


    25. Water splashes on my ankles when she washes her hair


    26. 25 He who washes himself after the touching of a dead body, if he touches it again, what use is his washing?


    27. I sit on the bed and lace up my boots while he washes up in the bathroom


    28. Rain washes away the dirt and grime


    29. And, then, the scarlet phosphorescence washes over Anup and me


    30. He washes his hands too and stares at me after turning the tap off

    31. shared between the parties involved, and one hand washes the other


    32. From within the heart of men proceed evil thoughts fornication adultery theft false witness murder injustice wickedness deceit stupidity the evil eye calumny pride foolishness: these evils all of them from within proceed from the heart and they are the things which defile the man: but if a man eat while he washes not his hands he is not defiled


    33. it washes in, it lights up the ground


    34. attention before, ‘she washes her panties and hangs them over the shower rack! It’s very


    35. A shimmer of relief washes over


    36. “What happened to that boyfriend of yours? You seemed to really like him,” he finishes your sandwich and stands from the table, brushes past you, he washes and dries his dish before taking a seat on the counter


    37. A half hour later Stef washes his hands in the sink using the washing up liquid as the soap as his fingers have become covered in silicone


    38. Stef washes and scrubs his hands several times and the silicone still remains


    39. The smell of fresh vegetation washes over his nose receptors and he can feel the richness of the oxygen in the air


    40. He had not realised how long it had taken to lay the carpet and he washes quickly

    41. Switching the kettle on she returns to the sink and washes her face in the cool water


    42. ‘Don’t do that, where I come from the cook never washes up


    43. As you might know, oil does not easily mix with water, but it readily washes or floats away in a thin film


    44. washes over us all, filling our eyes and ears and thoughts with clichés,


    45. of the log book washes away some of the hurt and keeps her close with


    46. That washes all away


    47. enormous sense of smallness and fragility, humbleness, and mortality that washes over you


    48. Silver light washes over us, and the moment we pass through the opening, Glacia’s hair drops back around her shoulders and the lightness disappears from my body


    49. A draft of cold air washes over my face when I go inside


    50. Flat washes are easy another type of wash is the graded wash











































    1. As she was crying and washing Jesus feet with


    2. Pausing with my hands in the washing up water, I watch a bird fly down to the bird table … I’ve never been much good at identifying birds, is that a tit of some sort? Goodness knows


    3. I’d started in the kitchen, washing up the breakfast things and then taking the cooker to pieces, scouring the chrome rings and going wild with the oven cleaner


    4. ‘Surely, they weren’t seriously seeing you as the perpetrator?’ he asked glancing round at me as his hands are busy washing the dishes under the hot tap


    5. I had to cut it back just after I moved in so that I could get to the washing line and ended up with several lacerations as a result


    6. On top of that, I spent most of yesterday keeping within reach of the phone and, on the two occasions I had to go out of earshot into the garden to deal with the washing, I had checked to see if anyone had called while I was out there as soon as I got back inside … but Stephen didn’t call


    7. I’ll never forget the time he decided to spray paint the kitchen walls … I’d left a basket of clean washing in there … fortunately there was a fairly substantial towel on the top of the basket which took the brunt of the paint but I could have killed him when I found out


    8. ‘Please may I come and join the party at The Laurels on Christmas Day? I was going up to the parents but Dad’s been called off to Dubai or somewhere so I’ll be sitting all alone in my little house with my turkey leg and a sprout on a plate … Gran and Gramps said you were having a party and I should ask if I could come … I’ll be a good boy and help with the washing up


    9. ‘Give you a hand with the washing up, Iain?’


    10. ‘I gave up washing dishes by hand years ago though, from what you’ve been saying, I’m going to have to get used to it all over again!’

    11. A washing machine rises bright and shining from its packaging, suffers a decade of high-speed revolutions and hot water calcification, and finally returns back to its constituent elements through recycling or decomposition deep beneath the gull strewn summits of landfill


    12. except for the constant – Mothers washing their child(rens)


    13. washing over the gunwales


    14. running hot water over his hands, washing away the stains


    15. I had the vision in mind of feet washing


    16. rhythmically moving their arms in the washing


    17. They proceeded to do the washing up


    18. washing machines? Or is it just a question


    19. happy with the sounds and the washing


    20. The apartment had that woman's touch, the flowers on the dining table, the washing drying on the balcony

    21. I took the washing in and freshened up the water in the vase


    22. It was the same old lady but this time she was almost bent double, right in front of me like a bundle of washing, and still struggling with those boxes and bags


    23. ’ I said, grinning at him as I run some water into the bowl and start washing the bandage out


    24. Oh well, it’s an ill wind and all that! I’ll make do with washing my hair … now where is that nice shampoo Gilla gave me … it makes my hair smell gorgeous …


    25. " Luray tried to not wrinkle her nose too much at the pungent smell of the lantern fuel he was washing the pulleys in


    26. She was washing her face in a small bowl on the hard-worked kitchen table


    27. For two days the blissful romance that should be the ambrosia of all newly weds was forced to give way to lessons in using the Hoover, heating up baked beans and loading the washing machine in such a way that the clothes didn’t all come out shit colour drab


    28. Something happens to me now whenever I'm in that odourless, invisible, wetness that is water whether in the bathtub, under the shower or just washing my skin


    29. Before I left Cornwall, I thought I'd miss my books but there were books all over the village; in the cafés or kafeneia as they call them in Greece, and even some down at the washing well


    30. He saved every penny he could by washing his own clothes, eating in burger bars and buying cheap plonk from the local off-licence

    31. We go through into her kitchen where she’s obviously in the middle of washing up – several days’ worth by the look of it!


    32. In the kitchen, the washing up I was doing when Sally called is now dry and I start putting it away


    33. I carry the shopping into the kitchen to put it all away … the washing machine has finished … must hang the washing out


    34. The washing is dry … drowsy with sun, I fold it and put it into the basket, pile my poems and all the other bits on top ready to be carried and, having put away the sunbed, lug it all slowly into the house


    35. As I’m sorting the dry washing in my bedroom, I hear a car outside


    36. ‘Let’s leave the washing up, Jo


    37. Better ring Alastair when you’ve finished washing up – hmmm - Jo and Alastair - I stand with my hands in the water in contemplation – how’re they finding settling down together? Hope there are no major problems


    38. The washing machine is going merrily and the house has been vacuumed and dusted


    39. While I wait for the washing to finish – both the clothes in the washing machine and the boys with the cars – I try to compose a shopping list


    40. He suggests a couple of items which I add to my list then offers to hang up the washing

    41. Rob insists on washing up while I go and ring Simon


    42. ironing boards, a defunct Hoover and piles of dirty washing, nor


    43. After dinner, the kids went off to do their own thing and Gary insisted on helping with the washing up, saying that he was fully domesticated and proceeding to demonstrate that very effectively


    44. The apartment itself comprises three decent sized bedrooms, a large lounge with balcony (with washing line arrangements), a dining room, decently appointed kitchen and bathroom – all very modern and sleek


    45. It seems appropriate for the cottage to be used to shelter a representative of a local family and the Stubbses have been in the village since time immemorial, as I remember Mrs Stubbs telling me once when she was washing my hair – that woman can talk! Oh well, wait and see what happens with Ms Singh


    46. She asks sensible questions about heating and cooking facilities and I explain that the cooker, washing machine and fridge are staying as I shall be taking over the stuff in Anna’s cottage


    47. heating up baked beans and loading the washing machine in such a


    48. every penny he could by washing his own clothes, eating in burger


    49. I know which group I belong in … However, after a considerable battle, which leaves me breathless and wondering yet again if I ought to go down to the gym more often, I have a nice clean set of bedding and a pile of bedclothes which I can shove into the washing machine


    50. Cordra stopped washing dishes and looked across the kitchen














































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    Synonyms for "wash"

    lavation wash washing laundry washables wash drawing dry wash airstream backwash race slipstream washout lave lap dampen moisten wash away wash off wash out rinse launder bog marsh swamp slough morass fen bathing cleansing ablution clean cleanse scrub swab mob rub bathe shower soak immerse douse

    "wash" definitions

    a thin coat of water-base paint


    the work of cleansing (usually with soap and water)


    the dry bed of an intermittent stream (as at the bottom of a canyon)


    the erosive process of washing away soil or gravel by water (as from a roadway)


    the flow of air that is driven backwards by an aircraft propeller


    a watercolor made by applying a series of monochrome washes one over the other


    garments or white goods that can be cleaned by laundering


    any enterprise in which losses and gains cancel out


    clean with some chemical process


    cleanse (one's body) with soap and water


    cleanse with a cleaning agent, such as soap, and water


    move by or as if by water


    be capable of being washed


    admit to testing or proof


    separate dirt or gravel from (precious minerals)


    apply a thin coating of paint, metal, etc., to


    remove by the application of water or other liquid and soap or some other cleaning agent


    form by erosion


    make moist


    wash or flow against


    to cleanse (itself or another animal) by licking