washing
wo shing
- n the work of cleansing (usually with soap and water)
- n garments or white goods that can be cleaned by laundering
- v clean with some chemical process
- v cleanse (one's body) with soap and water
- v cleanse with a cleaning agent, such as soap, and water
- v move by or as if by water
- v be capable of being washed
- v admit to testing or proof
- v separate dirt or gravel from (precious minerals)
- v apply a thin coating of paint, metal, etc., to
- v remove by the application of water or other liquid and soap or some other cleaning agent
- v form by erosion
- v make moist
- v wash or flow against
- v to cleanse (itself or another animal) by licking
- Instead of using the clothes dryer, she hangs her wash outside and uses cold water in the washing machine.
- Inadequate hand-washing accounted for 16% of the violations recorded, putting diners at risk for contagion of norovirus or salmonella.
- And there is some actual washing done (though it's in giant, $80,000 Italian washing machines filled with stones that pound the bejeezus out of the jeans).