to hose
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1.5
- verb
- /hoʊz/
:
regar
- It's something you can hose down, turn over, and reuse again.
That way I can like hose myself down and dry off.
- That way I can like hose myself down and dry off.
- Then I want to see these children being water hosed and beaten.
Examples
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Now they are taken back to a garbage room at the resort and hosed out with hot water.
Academic text (1995) -
Lenny asked Elspeth to close all the windows, then began the work by hosing off the house.
Fiction book (1991) -
- We're gonna have to hose them down.
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What do you say we get your fire brigade out here and hose down the cars?
Fiction book (1993) -
That's the stuff they hose the place down with.
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Two men stood in the flatbed, hosing it down; then they began scrubbing with long brooms.
Fiction book (1995) -
Most of the wastewater comes from hosing down the barns to flush out manure.
Academic text (1995) -
New paint was added, glass replaced, fixtures polished, entryways hosed down and shined.
Fiction book (2001) -
The gardener decided to hose the flowers in the garden to keep them healthy.
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After the storm, we had to hose down the patio to remove the mud.
Synonyms
12
3.4
Spray water onto something with a long tube to clean or cool it
Phrasal Verbs
Compounds
1
4.1
A flexible rubber tube that carries cooling liquid between a car's radiator and engine
Using force to make someone give secret passwords or keys for computer systems
How Wet
34
3.0
18
4.4
141
1.0
51
1.5
209
1.0
100
1.1
Surface Forms
Etymology
The verb hose comes from the noun hose the tube and simply means 'to spray' or water something with that tube. So to 'hose down' a car or a garden is to spray it with a hose.