wash
verb (used with object)
to apply water or some other liquid to (something or someone) for the purpose of cleansing; cleanse by dipping, rubbing, or scrubbing in water or some other liquid.
well-washed
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a word derived from
wash.
Example Sentences
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Teens can oversee whole dishes, and everyone can have fun with a matzoh ball roll-in — hands well-washed, of course.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 30, 2020
We have Novocain and electric drills and late-night dentists with well-washed hands.
From BBC ● Nov. 1, 2014
Its soft, well-washed fabric feels as soothing as soup.
From Time Magazine Archive
Emerging silently like guerrillas from behind endless rows of grapefruit trees were 25 Mozambican boys, dressed in well-washed jeans and carrying sharp, long-bladed pruning knives.
From Time Magazine Archive
I have seen a Moorish soldier squatting in the street with a brass porringer in his lap, eagerly awaiting the boom of the cannon to dip his well-washed fingers in the mess.
From The Library Magazine of Select Foreign Literature All volumes by Various
