wash up

lavar los platos, fregar los platos

Limpiar los platos, tazas y demás utensilios usados para cocinar o comer.

En inglés sencillo: To clean the plates, cups, and other things used for cooking or eating.

• I will wash up after dinner.
• She washed up the cups while I dried them.
• Who is going to wash up tonight?

Cómo se usa: wash up something / wash something up (Could you wash these plates up?)

Sinónimos: do the dishes, wash the dishes

Expresiones frecuentes: wash up dishes, wash up after dinner, wash something up

lavarse las manos, lavarse la cara

Lavarse las manos o la cara, a menudo antes de comer.

En inglés sencillo: To wash your hands or face, often before eating.

• Go and wash up before lunch.
• He washed up after working in the garden.
• Have you washed up for dinner yet?

Sinónimos: wash, clean up

Expresiones frecuentes: wash up before dinner, wash up for lunch

llegar a la orilla, ser arrastrado a la costa

Llegar a una playa u otra zona de tierra tras ser arrastrado por el agua.

En inglés sencillo: To be carried by water onto a beach or other land.

• Seaweed washes up here every day.
• An empty boat washed up on the shore.
• What else might wash up after the storm?

Cómo se usa: wash up on something (Several bottles washed up on the beach.)

Sinónimos: be washed ashore

Expresiones frecuentes: wash up ashore, wash up onshore

arrastrar a la orilla

Dicho del agua: llevar algo hasta una playa u otra zona de tierra.

En inglés sencillo: If water does this, it carries something onto a beach or other land.

• The tide washes up wood.
• Yesterday, the waves washed up hundreds of plastic bottles.
• A storm washed the boat up on the shore.

Cómo se usa: wash something up on something (The waves washed a broken crate up on the beach.)

Sinónimos: carry ashore

Expresiones frecuentes: wash up debris, wash something up, wash up driftwood

ir a parar, acabar

Llegar a un lugar, a menudo por sorpresa o después de pasar por varios sitios.

En inglés sencillo: To arrive somewhere, often unexpectedly or after moving from place to place.

• How did you wash up here?
• She washed up in a small town in Spain.
• After several failed jobs, he washed up at our office.

Cómo se usa: wash up in/at somewhere (He washed up in Lisbon after years of travel.)

Sinónimos: end up, land

Expresiones frecuentes: wash up somewhere, wash up here

dar una paliza

Golpear fuerte a alguien varias veces y hacerle daño.

En inglés sencillo: To hit someone hard several times and hurt them.

• They threatened to wash him up.
• Two men washed him up outside the club.
• He said the gang would wash me up if I returned.

Cómo se usa: wash someone up (The gang threatened to wash him up.)

Sinónimos: beat up, batter

Expresiones frecuentes: wash someone up, wash him up