"rinse down" meaning in English

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Verb

Forms: rinses down [present, singular, third-person], rinsing down [participle, present], rinsed down [participle, past], rinsed down [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} rinse down (third-person singular simple present rinses down, present participle rinsing down, simple past and past participle rinsed down)
  1. (transitive) To rinse (something) completely from top to bottom. Tags: transitive
    Sense id: en-rinse_down-en-verb-jl1P6xS5 Categories (other): English links with manual fragments
  2. (transitive) To send (something) down the drain by rinsing action. Tags: transitive
    Sense id: en-rinse_down-en-verb-bAmslWDV Categories (other): English links with manual fragments, English entries with incorrect language header, English phrasal verbs with particle (down) Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 40 60 Disambiguation of English phrasal verbs with particle (down): 25 75

Inflected forms

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