washed
part of speech
verb, past form of wash (wash, washes, washed, washing); adjective
meaning for a pupil
1) Washed means made clean with water, often with soap. tree →
2) Washed means carried along by water or waves, as in washed away or washed up. tree →
3) Washed out means pale and tired, or (of a game) cancelled because of rain. tree →
4) Washed up (informal) means no longer successful. tree →
sense in the lessons
In hygiene lessons, washed hands have been rubbed with soap and water for about twenty seconds. In food safety, fruit and vegetables should be washed before eating. In geography and science, things washed up on the beach are brought by waves; floods can wash away roads and soil (erosion). Phrases: washed your hands, washed up on the beach, washed away, washed out, freshly washed.
examples
- Have you washed your hands? tree →
- I washed the dishes after tea. tree →
- The fruit was washed before we ate it. tree →
- A dead jellyfish was washed up on the beach. tree →
- The flood washed away the bridge. tree →
- Our match was washed out by the rain. tree →
- She looked pale and washed out after being ill. tree →
- The waves washed it up on shore. tree →
note
Pronounced with one syllable: "wosht". "Washed up" for dishes in British English means the dishes were cleaned. In science, rain washing soil away is called erosion.
In the corpora
- Different chimp groups use different tools, and snow monkeys in Japan copied one young female who washed sandy sweet potatoes.
- Washed and in the Rat's clothes, he admires himself and wonders how anybody could ever have taken him for a washerwoman.
- Then, as a washerwoman who washed for Mr.
- Yellow turmeric turns reddish-brown with an alkali, so a curry stain can turn red when washed with soap.
- Cat scratches and bites can get infected, so they should be washed with soap and water.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «washed» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.