wash up

faire la vaisselle

Nettoyer les assiettes, tasses et autres objets utilisés pour cuisiner ou manger.

En anglais simple : To clean the plates, cups, and other things used for cooking or eating.

• I will wash up after dinner.
• She washed up the cups while I dried them.
• Who is going to wash up tonight?

Comment l'utiliser : wash up something / wash something up (Could you wash these plates up?)

Synonymes : do the dishes, wash the dishes

Expressions courantes : wash up dishes, wash up after dinner, wash something up

se laver les mains, se laver le visage

Se laver les mains ou le visage, souvent avant de manger.

En anglais simple : To wash your hands or face, often before eating.

• Go and wash up before lunch.
• He washed up after working in the garden.
• Have you washed up for dinner yet?

Synonymes : wash, clean up

Expressions courantes : wash up before dinner, wash up for lunch

échouer, être rejeté sur le rivage

Se retrouver sur une plage ou sur la terre ferme après avoir été transporté par l’eau.

En anglais simple : To be carried by water onto a beach or other land.

• Seaweed washes up here every day.
• An empty boat washed up on the shore.
• What else might wash up after the storm?

Comment l'utiliser : wash up on something (Several bottles washed up on the beach.)

Synonymes : be washed ashore

Expressions courantes : wash up ashore, wash up onshore

rejeter sur le rivage

Se dit de l’eau qui entraîne quelque chose sur une plage ou sur la terre ferme.

En anglais simple : If water does this, it carries something onto a beach or other land.

• The tide washes up wood.
• Yesterday, the waves washed up hundreds of plastic bottles.
• A storm washed the boat up on the shore.

Comment l'utiliser : wash something up on something (The waves washed a broken crate up on the beach.)

Synonymes : carry ashore

Expressions courantes : wash up debris, wash something up, wash up driftwood

atterrir, échouer

Se retrouver quelque part, souvent par surprise ou après être passé par plusieurs endroits.

En anglais simple : To arrive somewhere, often unexpectedly or after moving from place to place.

• How did you wash up here?
• She washed up in a small town in Spain.
• After several failed jobs, he washed up at our office.

Comment l'utiliser : wash up in/at somewhere (He washed up in Lisbon after years of travel.)

Synonymes : end up, land

Expressions courantes : wash up somewhere, wash up here

tabasser

Frapper quelqu’un plusieurs fois avec force et lui faire mal.

En anglais simple : To hit someone hard several times and hurt them.

• They threatened to wash him up.
• Two men washed him up outside the club.
• He said the gang would wash me up if I returned.

Comment l'utiliser : wash someone up (The gang threatened to wash him up.)

Synonymes : beat up, batter

Expressions courantes : wash someone up, wash him up