verb
- Wash one's face and hands.
- usage: "She freshened up in the bathroom"
- synonyms: lave
- Carry somewhere (of water or current or waves. )
- usage: "The tide washed up the corpse"
- Wash dishes.
- usage: "I cook and my husband washes up after dinner"
- synonyms: do the dishes
- Be carried somewhere by water or as if by water.
- usage: "The body washed up on the beach"
- Wear out completely.
- usage: "This kind of work exhausts me"; "I'm beat"; "He was all washed up after the exam"
- synonyms: exhaust, beat, tucker, tucker out
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