- present participle of rinse.
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Etymology
Origin of rinsing
First recorded in 1325–75, rinsing is from the Middle English word rinsynge. See rinse, -ing 1
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In the local hospital, a modest building nestled within the hillside town's trees and high grass, healthcare workers are rinsing both floor and walls with a chlorine solution.
From Barron's ● May 24, 2026
If you're rinsing your plates before putting them in the dishwasher you're doing it wrong, says Andrew Laughlin, principal researcher at consumer group Which?
From BBC ● Feb. 18, 2026
You know to turn the faucet in the bathroom off while rinsing out your swimsuit but something distracts you.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 23, 2026
The dedicated staff introduced us to the elephant we’d be bathing, allowing us to each scrub a quarter of the animal before rinsing clean.
From Salon ● Jan. 13, 2026
She pointed at the bedsheet he was rinsing, and slowly he took the dripping sheet out.
From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The teeth were thoroughly brushed, followed by three rinsings of the mouth.
From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey
I rinsed our bowls with hot water and dumped the rinsings out the valve-door of the tent.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
Milk, he tells us, was carried through the streets in open pails, exposed to foul rinsings discharged from doors and windows, and contaminated in many other ways too horrible to mention.
From Christopher Crayon's Recollections The Life and Times of the late James Ewing Ritchie as told by himself by J. Ewing (James Ewing) Ritchie
What! and take to him the dregs and rinsings of my life?
From A Son of Hagar A Romance of Our Time by Sir Hall Caine
The contents of E, E, together with the rinsings from the tubes, are poured into a capacious flask.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 561, October 2, 1886 by Various
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