RINSING Synonyms

• the act of making something clean

• cleansing the body by washing; especially ritual washing of e.g. hands

• acting like an antiseptic

• the act of cleaning a surface by rubbing it with a brush and soap and water

• cleaning with a mop

• the work of cleansing (usually with soap and water)

• garments or white goods that can be cleaned by laundering

• a small syringe with detachable nozzles; used for vaginal lavage and enemas

• irrigation with a jet of water or medicated solution into or around a body part (especially the vagina) to treat infections or cleanse from odorous contents

• direct a spray of water into a bodily cavity, for cleaning

• supply with water, as with channels or ditches or streams

• supply with a constant flow or sprinkling of some liquid, for the purpose of cooling, cleansing, or disinfecting

• To take advantage of the kindness of others.

• To get by imposition; to scrounge.

• To deprive (somebody) of something by imposition.

• To clean, soak up, or dab with a sponge.

• To suck in, or imbibe, like a sponge.

• To wipe out with a sponge, as letters or writing; to efface; to destroy all trace of.

• To be converted, as dough, into a light, spongy mass by the agency of yeast or leaven.

• The application of a sponge.

• a medicated solution used for gargling and rinsing the mouth

• the sound produced while gargling

• utter with gargling or burbling sounds

• rinse one's mouth and throat with mouthwash

• a thin coat of water-base paint

• the work of cleansing (usually with soap and water)

• the dry bed of an intermittent stream (as at the bottom of a canyon)

• the erosive process of washing away soil or gravel by water (as from a roadway)

• the flow of air that is driven backwards by an aircraft propeller

• a watercolor made by applying a series of monochrome washes one over the other

• garments or white goods that can be cleaned by laundering

• any enterprise in which losses and gains cancel out

• clean with some chemical process

• cleanse (one's body) with soap and water

• cleanse with a cleaning agent, such as soap, and water

• move by or as if by water

• be capable of being washed

• admit to testing or proof

• separate dirt or gravel from (precious minerals)

• apply a thin coating of paint, metal, etc., to

• remove by the application of water or other liquid and soap or some other cleaning agent

• form by erosion

• make moist

• wash or flow against

• wash by removing particles

• to cleanse (itself or another animal) by licking

• wash off soap or remaining dirt