Tra từ Wash - Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

wash [wash washes washed washing] verb, noun BrE [wɒʃ] NAmE [wɑːʃ] NAmE [wɔːʃ]
verb
1. transitive to make sth/sb clean using water and usually soap
•~ sth/sb These jeans need washing.
•to wash the car
•to wash your hands
• Wash the fruit thoroughly before eating.
•~ sth from sth She washed the blood from his face.
•~ sth/sb + adj. The beach had been washed clean by the tide.
2. intransitive, transitive (especially BrE)to make yourself clean using water and usually soap
• I washed and changed before going out.
•~ yourself She was no longer able to wash herself.
3. intransitive (+ adv./prep.) (of clothes, cloth, etc.)to be able to be washed without losing colour or being damaged
•This sweater washes well.
4. intransitive, transitive (of water)to flow or carry sth/sb in a particular direction
•+ adv./prep. Water washed over the deck.
•~ sth/sb + adv./prep. Pieces of the wreckage were washed ashore.
•He was washed overboard by a huge wave.
Verb forms:

Word Origin:
Old English wæscan (verb), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch wassen, German waschen, also to ↑water.

Synonyms:
clean
wash • rinse • cleanse • dry-clean
These words all mean to remove dirt from sth, especially by using water and/or soap.
clean • to remove dirt or dust from sth, especially by using water or chemicals: ▪ The villa is cleaned twice a week. ◇ ▪ Have you cleaned your teeth? ◇ ▪ This coat is filthy. I'll have it cleaned ▪ (= dry-cleaned).
wash • to remove dirt from sth using water and usually soap: ▪ He quickly washed his hands and face. ◇ ▪ These jeans need washing.
rinse • to remove dirt, etc. from sth using clean water only, not soap; to remove the soap from sth with clean water after washing it: ▪ Make sure you rinse all the soap out.
cleanse • to clean your skin or a wound.
dry-clean • to clean clothes using chemicals instead of water.
to clean/wash/rinse/cleanse sth in/with sth
to clean/wash/rinse sth from sth
to clean/wash/cleanse a wound
to clean/wash the car/floor
to wash/rinse your hair
to have sth cleaned/washed/dry-cleaned

Example Bank:
•Hands need to be washed regularly with hot water.
•She gently washed and dressed the wound.
•the smell of freshly washed hair
•He always washes the car on Sundays.
•He quickly washed his hands and face.
•He washed his face.
•If you wash the dishes, I'll dry.
•She washed out the empty bottles.
Idioms: ↑it will come out in the wash ▪ ↑something won't wash ▪ ↑wash your dirty linen in public ▪ ↑wash your hands of somebody
Derived: ↑wash off ▪ ↑wash out ▪ ↑wash over somebody ▪ ↑wash somebody away ▪ ↑wash something down ▪ ↑wash something off ▪ ↑wash something out ▪ ↑wash something up ▪ ↑wash up

noun
1. countable, usually singular (especially BrE)an act of cleaning sb/sth using water and usually soap
•These towels are ready for a wash.
•I'll just have a quick wash before dinner.
•The curtains could do with a good (= thorough) wash.
•I'm doing a dark wash (= washing all the dark clothes together).
•Your shirt's in the wash (= being washed or waiting to be washed).
•My sweater shrank in the wash.
•That blouse shouldn't look like that after only two washes.
see also ↑car wash
2. the washsingular an area of water that has waves and is moving a lot, especially after a boat has moved through it; the sound made by this
•The dinghy was rocked by the wash of a passing ferry.
•They listened to the wash of waves on the beach.
•Seagulls hovered above the wash of the trawler.
3. countable a thin layer of a liquid, especially paint, that is put on a surface
•The walls were covered with a pale yellow wash.
see also ↑whitewash
4. countable, uncountable a liquid containing soap, used for cleaning your skin
•an antiseptic skin wash
see also ↑mouthwash

Word Origin:
Old English wæscan (verb), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch wassen, German waschen, also to ↑water.

Example Bank:
•I'm doing a dark wash.
•That car could do with a good wash.
•This will all come out in the wash.
•Your shirt's in the wash.
•I'll just have a quick wash before dinner.
•That blouse shouldn't look like that after only two washes.

See also: ↑do the dishes ▪ ↑wash through somebody