hose down

1. 1.

   water with a hose

   “hose the lawn”

   Synonymshose

   Broaderwater

Questions about hose down

What does hose down mean?

hose down means "water with a hose".

What is another word for hose down?

Close synonyms include hose. 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 hose down a common word?

hose down is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.