wash up

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wash up

verbo transitivo con partícula

1. fregar, lavar (clean) (británico)

2. arrastrar hasta la playa (bring ashore) (of sea)

verbo intransitivo

3. fregar or lavar los platos (do dishes) (británico)

4. lavarse (have a wash) (Estados Unidos)

wash up

verb:intransitive:plus_adverb

1 (Britain) (wash dishes) fregar (los platos); lavar los platos

I'll wash up my turn to wash up I went into the kitchen to wash up he washed up while I had a rest

2 (US) (have a wash) lavarse

I went in to wash up before dinner

3 (come ashore)

it washed up with the tide lo trajo la marea; la marea lo arrastró a la playa

their boat washed up on a lonely island

verb:transitive:plus_adverb

1 (Britain) [+dishes] fregar; lavar

I made the beds and washed up the breakfast things I bet you make the breakfast and wash up their plates as well

2 (onto beach) arrastrar

the sea washed it up el mar lo arrastró a la playa

thousands of herring and crab are washed up on the beach during every storm

a body had been washed up on the beach un cuerpo había aparecido en la playa, arrastrado por el mar

to be all washed up [+person, marriage] estar acabado

he may be a washed-up novelist, but ... he seemed all washed up, with no career and no future our marriage is all washed up he's all washed up

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basement, cellar (in a house); vault (in a bank)