wash up
verb- To wash one's hands or face, often around mealtimes. · Dinner is almost ready, so go and wash up.
- To carry (an object) to land. · The tide washes up a lot of driftwood.· The whale was washed up on the beach.
- To be carried by water to land. · Some dangerous chemicals washed up on the beach.
- To arrive in a place; to end up somewhere.
- To beat up (someone).
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