wash up

lavare i piatti

Pulire piatti, tazze e altri oggetti usati per cucinare o mangiare.

In inglese semplice: 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?

Come si usa: wash up something / wash something up (Could you wash these plates up?)

Sinonimi: do the dishes, wash the dishes

Espressioni comuni: wash up dishes, wash up after dinner, wash something up

lavarsi le mani, lavarsi il viso

Lavarsi le mani o il viso, spesso prima di mangiare.

In inglese semplice: 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?

Sinonimi: wash, clean up

Espressioni comuni: wash up before dinner, wash up for lunch

essere trascinato a riva

Arrivare su una spiaggia o sulla terraferma dopo essere stati trasportati dall’acqua.

In inglese semplice: 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?

Come si usa: wash up on something (Several bottles washed up on the beach.)

Sinonimi: be washed ashore

Espressioni comuni: wash up ashore, wash up onshore

trascinare a riva

L’acqua porta qualcosa su una spiaggia o su un altro tratto di terra.

In inglese semplice: 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.

Come si usa: wash something up on something (The waves washed a broken crate up on the beach.)

Sinonimi: carry ashore

Espressioni comuni: wash up debris, wash something up, wash up driftwood

finire, capitare

Arrivare in un luogo, spesso inaspettatamente o dopo essersi spostati da un posto all’altro.

In inglese semplice: 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.

Come si usa: wash up in/at somewhere (He washed up in Lisbon after years of travel.)

Sinonimi: end up, land

Espressioni comuni: wash up somewhere, wash up here

picchiare, pestare

Colpire qualcuno più volte con forza e fargli male.

In inglese semplice: 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.

Come si usa: wash someone up (The gang threatened to wash him up.)

Sinonimi: beat up, batter

Espressioni comuni: wash someone up, wash him up