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do the washing

VERB
launder
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Many of us are time-poor now, but when you are cooking for one you have to do the washing up as well.

From The Guardian • May 6, 2019

It’s almost the same, I cook, do the washing, you know whatever.

From Slate • May 1, 2018

But in the high-altitude training camp in western Kenya where they live like monks, they muck out shared toilets and do the washing up just like everyone else.

From Washington Times • Mar. 29, 2016

The New Man rose to prominence in the 1980s like an exotic new species, happy to do the washing up or change a nappy.

From BBC • Jan. 30, 2014

“My mother wanted me to help her sweep and do the washing this morning.”

From "The Night Diary" by Veera Hiranandani




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