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rinse

/ɹɪns//ɹɛns/

rinse verb: to wash (something) quickly using water and no soap.

Verb

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

  1. (transitive) To wash (something) quickly using water and no soap.
    • You'd better rinse that stain before putting the shirt in the washing machine.
  2. (transitive) To remove soap from (something) using water.
    • Rinse the dishes after you wash them.
  3. (transitive) To drink and hangout with friends.
    • Let's Rinse later tonight at my house.
  4. (transitive) To swish (a liquid) around the inside of something.
    • Oscar uncapped his beer, rinsed the first mouthful around.1958 May, Avram Davidson, “Or All The Seas With Oysters”, in Galaxy Science Fiction, page 51
  5. (UK, slang) To thoroughly defeat in an argument, fight or other competition.
    • You got rinsed.
    • I think that's a British thing though. Like, I got rinsed for playing video games.2020 August 7, Joseph Bizinger, Garnt Maneetapho, Connor Marc Colquhoun, “Our Dark Past with Anime YouTube” (2:25 from the start), in Trash Taste, season 1, episode 10 (podcast), spoken by Connor...

Noun

rinse (plural rinses)

  1. The action of rinsing.
    • I'll just give this knife a quick rinse.
    Synonyms:
    lavatory
  2. A liquid used to rinse, now particularly a hair dye.
    • I had a henna rinse yesterday.
    Synonyms:
    lavatory, wash
  3. The act of drawing water into a syringe for the purported purpose of cleaning it.

rinse meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

rinse in Hindi

to rinse, swill, wash out
खँगालना khaṅgālnā

rinse in Tamil

அலசு

rinse in Marathi

to rinse
विसळणे visaḷṇe

rinse in Urdu

to wash something quickly using water and no soap
کھنگالنا khaṅgālnā
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rinse in Bengali
পানি দিয়ে ধোয়া, কুলি করা
rinse in Malayalam
അലക്കിക്കഴുകുക, കുലുക്കുഴിയുക, തിരുമ്മുക
rinse in Kannada
ಜಾಲಾಡುವುದು, ಗಲಬರಿಸುವುದು, ಮುಕ್ಕಳಿಸುವುದು, ಮುಕ್ಕುಳ್
rinse in Punjabi
ਕੁਰਲੀ ਕਰੋ
rinse in Gujarati
કોગળા કરો
rinse in Sanskrit
धावति dhā́vati, धाव् dhāv
rinse in Nepali
कुल्ला गर्नुहोस्
rinse in Arabic
شَطَفَ šaṭafa, مَضْمَضَ maḍmaḍa
rinse in Persian
رنساژ ransâž
rinse in Vietnamese
tráng

Examples of rinse in a sentence

  • You rinse and de-string the green beans; I'll take it from there.
  • I rinsed off my shirt under the tap, to get rid of the worst of the mud.
  • There was some food residue in the sink, so she rinsed it down.

All 40 example sentences with rinse

Synonyms of rinse

Forms of rinse

Verb
third-person singular presentrinses
present participlerinsing
past participlerinsed
pastrinsed
alternative formrinch
Noun
pluralrinses

Past tense of rinse: rinsed

Origin of rinse

From Middle English rinsen, rincen, rencen (“to rinse”), from Old French rincier, reinser, Old Northern French raïncer (“to rinse, cleanse”). Of contested origin. Possibly from Old Norse hreinsa, from Proto-Germanic *hrainisōną (“to clean, purify”), from Proto-Indo-European *krey- (“to separate, divide”). Alternatively from a dissimilation of Old French recincier, from Latin recentare (“to make fresh”). Cognate with French rincer. From the Germanic verb are Danish rense, Norwegian rense, Swedish rensa (all “to clean”), Old High German reinisōn (“to clean, purify, atone”). It is related to German rein (“pure”), Gothic 𐌷𐍂𐌰𐌹𐌽𐍃 (hrains, “clean”), and English riddle. The Latin verb is related to recent.

Words formed from rinse

Phrases with rinse

Words that rhyme with rinse

Questions about rinse

What does rinse mean?
Rinse means to wash (something) quickly using water and no soap.
What is rinse in Hindi?
Rinse in Hindi is खँगालना (khaṅgālnā). See Rinse meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is rinse?
Rinse can be a verb or a noun.
How do you pronounce rinse?
Rinse is pronounced /ɹɪns/.
What is the past tense of rinse?
The past tense of rinse is rinsed.

Words near rinse in the dictionary

  1. rins
  2. rinsability
  3. rinsable
  4. rinsate
  5. rinsates
  6. rinse
  7. rinse aid
  8. rinse aids
  9. rinse and repeat
  10. rinse down
  11. rinse off

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: rinse (page history and authors); खँगालना (Hindi) (page history and authors); rinse (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); विसळणे (Marathi) (page history and authors); rinse (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); rinse (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); rinse (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); rinse (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); rinse (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); धावति (Sanskrit) (page history and authors); rinse (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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