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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.
- oldest soap
- Babylonians made it from fat and ash 4,800 years ago
- handwashing pioneer
- Doctors mocked Semmelweis for suggesting it; he died ignored
- water tax
- One wash uses up to 27 gallons in older machines
- brain laundry
- Sleep literally washes waste from your brain nightly
for instance
wash river — river in washington state, usa, flows into the columbia river
the wash — large shallow bay on the east coast of england between norfolk and lincolnshire
wash trading — illegal market practice where traders buy and sell the same security to create fake volume, sec enforcement 2010s