WASH DOWN


Meaning of WASH DOWN in English

1.

If you wash something, especially food, down with a drink, you drink the drink after eating the food, especially to make the food easier to swallow or digest.

He took two aspirin immediately and washed them down with three cups of water.

PHRASAL VERB: V n P, also V P n (not pron)

2.

If you ~ an object, you wash it all, from top to bottom.

The prisoner started to ~ the walls of his cell.

PHRASAL VERB: V P n (not pron), also V n P

Collins COBUILD.      Толковый словарь английского языка для изучающих язык Коллинз COBUILD (международная база данных языков Бирмингемского университета) .