Washing-up

/wˈɒʃɪŋˈʌp/

/wˈɑːʃɪŋˈʌp/

[noun]

Washing-up

[NOUN]

the activity of washing the dishes, glasses, etc. particularly after a meal

Examples

1. They use their bare hands, they use the washing-up bowls, often the only bowls they possess, that they'll bathe their babies in later, and they use mercury and cyanide.

2. This revelation, plus the washing-up stuff, helped revolutionized the usage of antiseptics in doctoring.

3. And I did this by spraying some washing-up liquid solution to make it nice and slippy.

4. The Byzantines understood that in order for general public health to increase, they needed to provide washing-up access to those that were living without any.

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