to wash up
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3.6
- phrasal verb
- /wɔʃ ʌp/
:
varar
- It's definitely sad how much trash washes up on the beach.
- wash up on the shore
- wash up on the beach
It's just not a good thing to see bodies washing up on Fort Myers Beach, right?
- It's just not a good thing to see bodies washing up on Fort Myers Beach, right?
- Long story short, her body parts washed up on the beach.
- Like I found a carved doll from no idea, washed up on the shore.
- And there once saw a dead dog wash up.
- There's a story in Japan of an object that that basically washes up on shore and a woman gets out of it.
- They got a couple dozens of creepy dolls have washed up on the shore there.
- Oh, yeah, I like body washed up on the shore.
Examples
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"Sometimes things wash up that people have never seen before.
Academic text (2010) -
They wash up on the shore.
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I was just about to turn back when I saw something had washed up on the beach.
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Well, exactly what time did this woman wash up on shore?
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There, some of the money washed up on the beach where young Brian discovered it.
Blog text (18) -
It's usually after a storm when anything's washed up on the beach.
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And thousands and thousands of starfish were washed up on the shore.
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Exactly two years ago, a sperm whale was washed up on the beach of Koksijde in Belgium.
Fiction book (1994) -
- As the sun sets on this indescribable day of death and destruction, evidence of the tragedy continues to wash up on the shore all around us.
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I found an old bottle that had washed up on the shore after the storm.
Synonyms
258
2.3
To carry away soil or rock by moving water
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
wash + up
The political noun 'wash up' is a metaphorical extension of the literal components: 'up' signals completion and 'wash' suggests clearing away, so there is a partial compositional clue (clearing/finishing work). However, the specific meaning—an end-of-session period for hurried parliamentary deals—is specialized British political jargon and not directly predictable from the constituents by a B1 learner without prior exposure.
Etymology
Wash up comes from the picture of waves that wash things up onto the beach. Objects are carried by the sea and left on land, so it means 'to be carried by water and deposited on shore'.