Definition of "wash up" [wash up]

• (intransitive) To clean the utensils, dishes etc. used in preparing and eating a meal. (verb)
• (intransitive) To wash one's hands and/or face, often around mealtimes. (verb)
• To carry an object to land. (verb)
• Something or somebody that has once had it's peak of greatness far too long ago, and is now still being over used, over played, and is still pushed through the media, even though it's gotten extremely old, bland, worn out, and is just sad to still see around (verb)

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• "In the moonlight, the scaffold appears to be made of bleached bones from one of the leviathans that wash up on our shores from time to time to general alarm, for what godly world encompasses such creatures?"
• "The tradition, passed from Guardian to Guardian, explained that odd remnants of the Drowned World would occasionally wash up on Tamar's shore."
• ""It looked," said George Neese, "as if Heaven were trying to wash up the blood as fast as the civilized barbarians were spilling it.""