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hand washes

hand washes is the plural of hand wash.

hand washes is the third-person singular simple present indicative of hand wash.

Meaning of hand wash

Noun

hand wash (countable and uncountable, plural hand washes)

  1. (countable) An instance of washing one’s hands.
    • Davis (11) compared hand exposures of apple thinners using gloves and hand washes. He found that hand exposures obtained by rinsing were significantly lower than those obtained by using either cotton or nylon gloves.1985, Claire A. Franklin, “Occupational Exposure to Pesticides and Its Role in Risk Assessment Procedures Used in Canada”, in Richard C. Honeycutt, Gunter Zweig, Nancy N. Ragsdale, editors, Dermal...
    Synonyms:
    handwashing
  2. (countable) An instance of washing something by hand.
    • FIG. 2. Results of giving a hand wash to worsted fabric.1961 September, Edwin G. Sutcliffe, “Now a Permanent Flat-Press for Worsted!”, in Textile Industries, Atlanta, Ga.: W. R. C. Smith Publishing Co., page 109, column 3

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Questions about hand washes

What is hand washes the plural of?
Hand washes is the plural of hand wash.

Words near hand washes in the dictionary

  1. hand turkeys
  2. hand up
  3. hand wash
  4. hand washable
  5. hand washed
  6. hand washes
  7. hand washing
  8. hand washings
  9. hand waving
  10. hand wavings
  11. hand wavy

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