wash off

phrasal verb

washed off; washing off; washes off

1

: to clean (something) by using water

Wash the mud off the bikes before you put them away.

2

: to be able to be removed or cleaned by washing

This makeup washes off easily.

Examples of wash off in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Available on prescription, the cream is applied all over the body from the neck down, and left for eight to 14 hours before being washed off. —Will Barker, TheWeek, 23 Jan. 2026

Tomasino has recently been developing a different approach—a proprietary lipid spray, which doesn’t need to be washed off—but won’t be able to test it until the summer. —Nicola Twilley, New Yorker, 5 Jan. 2026

Wallpaper that has a non-woven backing can be peel off dry and leave behind some spots of glue that can be washed off with soapy water. —Kaitlyn Keegan, Hartford Courant, 4 Jan. 2026

Later trial testimony established that after the killing, Chatman was seen back home in East Palo Alto with his young son in a bathtub, both of them washing off blood from their bodies. —Robert Salonga, Mercury News, 6 Dec. 2025

Rhymes for wash off

• ashraf
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• cutoff
• falloff
• handoff
• kickoff
• layoff
• liftoff
• markoff
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• payoff
• playoff