English-Danish translations for washing

• vask
  Det drejer sig ikke om, at vi skal vaske os selv, men om ikke at blive våde. It is not about washing ourselves but not getting wet.
  Vi i denne side af salen er ikke parate til at agere Pontius Pilatus og vaske vores hænder. We on this side of the House are not prepared to play Pontius Pilate, washing our hands of the problem.

Definition of washing

• The action of the verb to '''wash'''
• Clothing, bedlinen or soft furnishings that have been, are currently being, or are to be washed; laundry
• The residue after an ore, etc, has been washed
• The liquid used to wash an ore
• A thin covering or coat
• A fraudulent transaction in which the same stock is simultaneously bought and sold for the purpose of manipulating the market

Synonyms

• laundry

Examples

• My mother used to do the washing on a Monday
• The washings have a higher concentration of metal
• the gold-washings, or silver-washings
• a washing of silver

Related words

• Washington
• whitewashing
• washing-up
• brainwashing
• greenwashing
• swashing
• brain-washing
• dishwashing
• Washingtonian