Synonyms for wash down
wash down

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1. wash downverb

   eat food accompanied by lots of liquid; also use metaphorically

   "She washed down her dinner with a bottle of red wine"; "He washes down his worries with a nightly glass of whisky"

   Synonyms:
   flush down

2. wash down, flush downverb

   flow freely

   "The body washed down the river"

   Synonyms:
   flush down

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1. • Eat
   • Flush

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1. Sarah Wootton:

   I would live my life as ever to the full and die, before the disease mounted its last attack, in my own home, in a chair on the lawn, with a brandy in my hand to wash down whatever modern version of the Brompton Cocktail some helpful medic could supply. And with Thomas Tallis on my iPod, I would shake hands with death. sir Terry was fond of saying, 'It's time we learned to be as good at dying as we are at living' and his brave approach to confronting issues of death, including his own, was a heartfelt demonstration of dignity.

2. Jason Smith -LRB- left -RRB-:

   Santa would take the cookies out of the stockings and eat them and then fill the stockings with our gifts, the milk came in later years when families realized Santa need something to wash down all those homemade cookies.

3. Terry Pratchett:

   I have vowed that rather than let Alzheimer's take me, I would take it, i would live my life as ever to the full and die, before the disease mounted its last attack, in my own home, in a chair on the lawn, with a brandy in my hand to wash down whatever modern version of the Brompton Cocktail some helpful medic could supply. And with Thomas Tallis on my iPod, I would shake hands with death.

4. Angie Thompson:

   Cars, yards … It’s affected every single person over here, it’s just really horrible to watch people’s lives just wash down the river.