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- to wash; to bathe
- to develop (photographs)
- to shuffle (cards etc)
- to erase (a recording)
- to wash; to rinse; to clean
- (fig.) to purge; to get rid of (corrupt individuals etc)
- to wipe clean
- to scrub
- (fig.) to get rid of (a bad reputation, a misconception etc)
- to clean the floor
- (Internet slang) (lit.) to wash (the blood) off the floor
- (fig.) to cover up evidence of sb's wrongdoing
- to defend (a wrongdoer)
- (coll.) to carpet-bomb
- to shuffle cards, dominoes or mahjong tiles etc
- (fig.) to reshuffle; to reorganize; to shake up; to restructure
- (dentistry) to perform or undergo scaling (removal of dental plaque and calculus)
- to modify a text so it can be plagiarized without detection (neologism c. 2014, formed by analogy with 洗錢|洗钱[xi3 qian2], to launder money)
- (medicine) to give or receive gastric lavage; to get one's stomach pumped
Trad. 洗馬
- (official title) herald to the crown prince (in imperial China)
- to have a shower and go to bed
- (fig.) (slang) (neologism) (often sarcastic) to give up on sth unrealistic; to stop kidding oneself; (used dismissively, typically as 洗洗睡吧[xi3 xi3 shui4 ba5]) keep dreaming
Trad. 耶洗別
- Jezebel, wife of Ahab and mother of Ahaziah, major character in 1 Kings 16:31, 19:1, 21 and 2 Kings 9, killed by Jehu 耶戶|耶户[Ye1 hu4]
- (Tw) pebble-wash finish; exposed aggregate surface (construction technique using cement mixed with small stones, then washed to expose the pebbles)
Trad. 洗衣網
- mesh laundry bag (for keeping garments separate from others in the washing machine)
Trad. 赤貧如洗
- without two nickels to rub together (idiom)
- impoverished
Trad. 以淚洗面
- to bathe one's face in tears (idiom)
Trad. 家貧如洗
- extreme poverty (idiom); destitute
- penniless
- poor as church mice
- lit. to wash one's hands in a gold basin (idiom)
- fig. to abandon the life of an outlaw
Trad. 洗冤集錄
- "Collected Cases of Injustice Rectified" (1247) by Song Ci 宋慈[Song4 Ci2], said to be the world's first forensic science text
- lit. to wash one's heart and renew one's face (idiom); to repent sincerely and mend one's mistaken ways
- to turn over a new leaf
Trad. 洗手不幹
- to totally stop doing something
- to reform one's ways
Trad. 洗耳恭聽
- to listen with respectful attention
- (a polite request to sb to speak)
- we are all ears
- lit. to renew one's face and wash one's heart (idiom); to repent sincerely and mend one's mistaken ways
- to turn over a new leaf
Trad. 耐洗滌性
- washing or color fastness
- launderability
Trad. 合成洗滌劑
- synthetic detergent
Trad. 高壓清洗機
- high pressure washer
Trad. 蘿蔔快了不洗泥
- when radishes are selling fast, one doesn't take the time to wash the soil off them (idiom)
- fig. when business is booming, merchants tend to offer goods of inferior quality
Trad. 跳進黃河洗不清
- lit. even jumping into the Yellow River can't get you clean
- fig. to become inexorably mixed up
- mired in controversy
- in deep trouble