rinse out

English

Verb

rinse out (third-person singular simple present rinses out, present participle rinsing out, simple past and past participle rinsed out)

  1. (transitive) To clean (as the inside of a container) by washing it to remove residue.
  2. (transitive) To remove matter by rinsing with water.
    To rinse out hair conditioner.

Noun

rinse out (plural rinse outs)

  1. An act of rinsing out.
    • 1913, Norman Lindsay, A Curate in Bohemia, Sydney: N.S.W. Bookstall Co., published 1932, page 92:
      A hasty rinse out under the tap was all the attention he bestowed on the crockery; and five minutes' desperate energy with the broom resulted in most of the rubbish being deposited under the bed.
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.