do the dishes

1. 1.

   wash dishes

   “I cook and my husband washes up after dinner”

   Synonymswash up

   Broaderclean

Questions about do the dishes

What does do the dishes mean?

do the dishes means "wash dishes".

What is another word for do the dishes?

Close synonyms include wash up. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is do the dishes a common word?

do the dishes is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.