Finnish Meaning of washing one's hands of

pestä kätensä jostakin

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Definitions and Meaning of washing one's hands of in English

washing one's hands of

to flush or moisten (a bodily part or injury) with a liquid, loose or eroded surface material of the earth (such as rock debris) transported and deposited by running water, a disturbance in a fluid (such as water or the air) produced by the passage of an airfoil or propeller, to remove (something, such as dirt) by rubbing or drenching with liquid, a thin coat of paint (such as watercolor), to move, carry, or deposit by or as if by the force of water in motion, the act or process or an instance of washing or being washed, bog, marsh, to wash oneself or a part of one's body, the dry bed of a stream, to cover or daub lightly with or as if with an application of a thin liquid (such as whitewash or varnish), to cleanse (fur) by licking or by rubbing with a paw moistened with saliva, a sweep or splash especially of color made by or as if by a long stroke of a brush, to undergo testing successfully, a shallow body of water, to wet thoroughly, to subject (something, such as crushed ore) to the action of water to separate valuable material, to pass through a bath to carry off impurities or soluble components, something resembling this action or sound, a thin liquid used for coating a surface (such as a wall), a situation in which losses and gains or advantages and disadvantages balance each other, to depict or paint by a broad sweep of thin color with a brush, vapid writing or speech, lotion, articles to be washed, being washed, or having been washed, a piece of ground washed by the sea or river, to pour, sweep, or flow in a stream or current, to separate (particles) from a substance (such as ore) by agitation with or in water, to cleanse by or as if by the action of liquid (such as water), to become worn away by the action of water, worthless especially liquid waste, to pass (a gas or gaseous mixture) through or over a liquid to purify it especially by removing soluble components, to serve as a cleansing agent, to cause to swirl, to pass a liquid (such as water) over or through especially so as to carry off material from the surface or interior, a shallow creek, an insipid beverage, backwash sense 1, washable, to gain acceptance, to overspread with light, to undergo laundering, launder sense 3, to clean something by rubbing or dipping in water, to flow along or dash or overflow against, to become carried along on water, involving essentially simultaneous purchase and sale of the same security, the surging action or sound of waves

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pestä kätensä jostakin

to flush or moisten (a bodily part or injury) with a liquid, loose or eroded surface material of the earth (such as rock debris) transported and deposited by ru

kieltävä,kieltäytymässä,haastava,ristiriitainen,arvosteleva,kiistävä,kieltävä,perinnöstäriisto,kumoten,Hylkäävä

Hyväksyvä,tunnustava,adoptio,väittävä,suova,omistava,tunnustava,myöntäen,vahvistava,ilmoittava

washes out => Pesee pois, washes => pesee, washed out => Haalistunut, washed one's hands of => Pestä kätensä, wash one's hands of => pestä kätensä,