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Wash down   /wɑʃ daʊn/   Listen
Wash down

verb
1.
Eat food accompanied by lots of liquid; also use metaphorically.  "He washes down his worries with a nightly glass of whisky"
2.
Flow freely.  Synonym: flush down.





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"Wash down" Quotes from Famous Books



... sigh a bitter farewell to goats' flesh and mutton, and familiarize his palate to greater delicacies, such a lizards, rats, and locusts, caterpillars, and other dainties, which the natives roast, grill, bake, and boil, and which he may wash down, if he pleases, with draughts of milk white water, the only beverage it will be in his power to obtain." On the morning of Wednesday the 19th of May, Richard Lander was desired by a messenger to visit the king at his residence, and ...
— Lander's Travels - The Travels of Richard Lander into the Interior of Africa • Robert Huish


Words linked to "Wash down" :   eat, flush down, flush


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