Washing Synonyms and Antonyms

wŏshĭng, wôshĭng
The work of cleansing (usually with soap and water)
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. laundry
  2. wash
  3. cleaning
  4. lavation
  5. ablution
  6. abstersion
  7. soiled clothes
  8. bath
  9. bathing
  10. detersion
  11. fomentation
  12. laundering
  13. lavabo
  14. dirty clothes
  15. lavage
  16. lavement
  17. laving
  18. maundy
  19. rinsing
  20. soaking
  21. washables
To border upon
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. floating
  2. hitting
  3. flooding
  4. reaching
  5. laving
  6. touching
  7. drifting
Cleanse with a cleaning agent, such as soap, and water
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. clean
  2. deterge
  3. douse
  4. elutriate
  5. eluviate
  6. erode
  7. irrigate
  8. laving
  9. leach
  10. mundify
  11. wash
  12. daubing
  13. lipping
  14. laundering
  15. retouching
  16. staining
  17. tinting
  18. dyeing
  19. coating
  20. lapping
  21. coloring
  22. whitewashing
  23. painting
  24. swabbing
Antonyms:
  1. dirtying
Cleanse (one's body) with soap and water
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. laving

Words Related to Washing

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. moving
  2. dry
  3. convincing
  4. washing-up
  5. dishwash
  6. drying
  7. descale
  8. pre-wash
  9. shaving

Washing Sentence Examples

  • This washing is a most important part of the process.

  • By the time Alex arrived for breakfast, she had it on the table and was washing the frying pan in the sink.

  • The Key of Truth regards the water as a washing of the body, and sees in the rite no opus operatum, but an essentially spiritual rite in which "the king releases certain rulers a from the prison of sin, the Son calls them to himself and comforts them with great words, and the Holy Spirit of the king forthwith comes and crowns them, and dwells in them for ever."

  • The acid is then slowly run out by an opening in the bottom of the pan in which the operation is conducted, and water distributed carefully over its surface displaces it in the interstices of the cotton, which is finally subjected to a course of boiling and washing with water.

  • Cellulose sulphates are one, and possibly the main, cause of instability in guncotton, and it is highly desirable that they should be completely hydrolysed and removed in the washing process.

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