as in to wash
to pour liquid over or through in order to cleanse
rinse that shirt immediately, or the paint will set
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Recent Examples of rinse
DiCaprio would rinse and repeat this movie’s grandly melodramatic approach a year later for a little film about two crazy kids on an ocean liner.
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Tim Grierson, Vulture, 26 Sep. 2025
If the color looks good, rinse with warm water, then shampoo your hair and condition.
—Maureen Choi, Glamour, 25 Sep. 2025
All other produce can be gently rubbed while being rinsed.
—Sandee Lamotte, CNN Money, 24 Sep. 2025
After polishing, Stewart washes each piece with dish soap, rinses with lukewarm water, and dries immediately to prevent watermarks.
—Toni Sutton, PEOPLE, 16 Sep. 2025
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Tim Grierson, Vulture, 26 Sep. 2025
If the color looks good, rinse with warm water, then shampoo your hair and condition.
—Maureen Choi, Glamour, 25 Sep. 2025
All other produce can be gently rubbed while being rinsed.
—Sandee Lamotte, CNN Money, 24 Sep. 2025
After polishing, Stewart washes each piece with dish soap, rinses with lukewarm water, and dries immediately to prevent watermarks.
—Toni Sutton, PEOPLE, 16 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for rinse
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Inspectors gave the Sacramento coffee shop a yellow placard after watching an employee skip the sanitizer step when washing a tray of cups and forks.—
Sarah Linn,
Sacbee.com,
3 Oct. 2025
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Remove screens to spray down with your garden hose and wash and squeegee the exterior glass.—
Brandee Gruener,
Southern Living,
3 Oct. 2025
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Tigers catcher Dillon Dingler remembered Hinch’s texts — and those from other players who began responding — as a helpful step in flushing all that had gone wrong over several weeks.—
Jason Lloyd,
New York Times,
1 Oct. 2025
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Small things, like individual eyelashes or grains of sand, often get flushed out on their own through a combination of tearing up and blinking, per Mount Sinai.—
Hannah Yasharoff,
USA Today,
29 Sep. 2025
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“Rinse.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rinse. Accessed 9 Oct. 2025.
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