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The ritual where water pretends nothing ever happened and we let it.
means To clean something with water, or to be carried along or affected by a flow of liquid.
from From Old English 'wascan,' a Germanic word tied to a root meaning 'water' — a cousin of 'wet.' The same family branches into German 'waschen.' For most of its life the word stayed close to its source: where there was water and the will to use it, there was washing.
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