wash-down

  • 41wash it down — drink to help you swallow, drink after eating    Have a donut and some coffee to wash it down …

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  • 42wash-leather — noun a) Leather that has been treated so as to be very absorbent. Usually made of sheepskin treated with oil, and used for dusting or as an absorbent lining in pockets, gloves, etc. One of his waistcoat pockets was lined with wash leather for the …

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  • 43Wash-Sale Rule — An Internal Revenue Service (IRS) rule prohibiting a taxpayer from claiming a loss on the sale of an investment when the same investment was purchased within 30 days before or after the sale date. Also know as the 30 day wash sale rule . This… …

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  • 44wash out — Synonyms and related words: achromatize, baptize, bath, bathe, blanch, bleach, bust, cashier, cast, decolor, decolorize, dim, discolor, douche, drain, drain of color, dull, etiolate, fade, fail, flummox, flunk, flunk out, flush, flush out, fume,… …

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  • 45wash one's hands of — abandon, refuse responsibility for He washed his hands of the problem after they refused to deal with it. (from Idioms in Speech) to decline responsibility, to rid oneself of the responsibility for As far as Ken and Vicky were concerned, Davy had …

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  • 46wash up — (Roget s Thesaurus II) I verb To cause the complete ruin or wreckage of: bankrupt, break down, cross up, demolish, destroy, finish, ruin, shatter, sink, smash, spoil, torpedo, undo, wrack2, wreck. Slang: total. Idiom: put the kibosh on. See HELP …

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  • 47ˌwash sth ˈdown — phrasal verb to drink a liquid in order to help you to swallow food or medicine more easily He had a large slice of pizza washed down with beer.[/ex] …

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  • 48wash — A shallow part of a river or arm of the sea. The sandy, rocky, gravelly, boulder bestrewn part of a river bottom deposited on level land near mouth of a canyon representing rocks and gravel washed down by a mountain stream …

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  • 49wash boring — noun : a boring system by which material loosened by a bit is borne to the surface in the annular space between the bit and casing by water forced down through the pipe bearing the bit …

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  • 50flush down — verb flow freely The body washed down the river • Syn: ↑wash down • Hypernyms: ↑flush • Verb Frames: Something s Something is ing PP …

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