rinse

English

Etymology

From Middle English rinsen, rensen, rencen (“to rinse”), from Old French rincier, reinser, Old Northern French raïncer (“to rinse, cleanse”). Of contested origin. Possibly from Old Norse hreinsa, from Proto-Germanic *hrainisōną (“to clean, purify”), from Proto-Indo-European *krey- (“to separate, divide”). Alternatively from a dissimilation of Old French recincier, from Latin recentare (“to make fresh”).

Cognate with French rincer. From the Germanic verb are Danish rense, Norwegian rense, Swedish rensa (all “to clean”), Old High German reinisōn (“to clean, purify, atone”). It is related with German rein (“pure”), Gothic 𐌷𐍂𐌰𐌹𐌽𐍃 (hrains, “clean”), and English riddle. The Latin verb is related with recent.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɹɪns/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -ɪns
• (dated, regional US) IPA^(key): /ɹɛns/

Verb

rinse (third-person singular simple present rinses, present participle rinsing, simple past and past participle rinsed)

1. (transitive) To wash (something) quickly using water and no soap.

   You'd better rinse that stain before putting the shirt in the washing machine.

2. (transitive) To remove soap from (something) using water.

   Rinse the dishes after you wash them.

3. (UK, slang) To thoroughly defeat in an argument, fight or other competition.

   You got rinsed.

   • 2020 August 7, Joseph Bizinger; Garnt Maneetapho; Connor Marc Colquhoun, “Our Dark Past with Anime YouTube”, in w:Trash Taste‎^[1] (in English), season 1, episode 10, Tokyo, Japan: YouTube, archived from the original on 2020-10-19, retrieved 2020-12-20, spoken by Connor Marc Colquhoun (Connor Marc Colquhoun), 2:25 from the start:

     I think that's a British thing though. Like, I got rinsed for playing video games.

Derived terms

• rinse off
• rinse out

Translations

to wash something quickly using water and no soap

• Arabic: شَطَفَ‎ (šaṭafa)
• Azerbaijani: yaxalamaq
• Bulgarian: изплаквам (bg) (izplakvam)
• Catalan: esbandir (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 沖 (zh), 冲 (zh) (chōng), 沖洗 (zh), 冲洗 (zh) (chōngxǐ)

• Czech: opláchnout, oprat (cs)
• Bikol Central: ragnaw
• Danish: skylle (da), spule
• Esperanto: akvumi (eo)
• Finnish: huuhdella (fi), huuhtoa (fi)
• French: rincer (fr)

  Middle French: rincer

• Galician: eslavar, enxaugar, pafexar, galdrexar, xabucar, laburexar, caldexar
• German: spülen (de)
• Greek: ξεπλένω (el) (xepléno)
• Haitian Creole: rense
• Hebrew: שטף‎ (he) (shatáf)
• Hungarian: öblít (hu)
• Ido: rinsar (io)
• Italian: risciacquare, sciacquare (it)

• Japanese: 濯ぐ (ja) (susugu)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: ئاو تێوەردان‎ (aw têwerdan)

• Ladino: enshaguar
• Latin: eluo
• Maori: opeope
• Meänkieli: viruttaa
• Middle English: rincen
• Norman: rinchi
• Norwegian: rense
• Polish: płukać (pl)
• Portuguese: enxaguar (pt)
• Quechua: ch'uyanay
• Romanian: clăti (ro)
• Russian: полоска́ть (ru) impf (poloskátʹ), спола́скивать (ru) impf (spoláskivatʹ)
• Scottish Gaelic: sgol
• Spanish: enjuagar (es)
• Swedish: skölja (sv)
• Vietnamese: tráng (vi)

to remove soap from something using water

• Armenian: պարզաջրել (hy) (parzaǰrel)
• Azerbaijani: yaxalamaq
• Bulgarian: плакна (bg) (plakna)
• Catalan: esbandir (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Czech: opláchnout
• Bikol Central: ragnaw
• Esperanto: tralavi
• Finnish: huuhdella (fi), huuhtoa (fi)
• French: rincer (fr)
• Galician: enxaugar, acrarar
• German: spülen (de)
• Greek: ξεπλένω (el) (xepléno)
• Hebrew: שטף‎ (he) (shatáf)
• Hungarian: öblít (hu)
• Ido: rinsar (io)

• Italian: sciacquare (it)
• Japanese: 濯ぐ (ja) (susugu)
• Latin: eluo
• Maori: opeope
• Meänkieli: viruttaa
• Norwegian: skylle (no)
• Portuguese: enxaguar (pt)
• Quechua: ch'uwachay
• Russian: полоска́ть (ru) impf (poloskátʹ), смыва́ть (ru) impf (smyvátʹ)
• Scottish Gaelic: sgol
• Spanish: aclarar (es)
• Swedish: skölja (sv)
• Turkish: please add this translation if you can
• Vietnamese: tráng (vi)

Noun

rinse (plural rinses)

1. The action of rinsing.

   I'll just give this knife a quick rinse.

2. A liquid used to rinse, now particularly a hair dye.

   I had a henna rinse yesterday.

Synonyms

• (rinsing, a rinsing): lavatory
• (anything used to rinse): lavatory, wash

Translations

the action of rinsing

• Bulgarian: изплакване n (izplakvane)
• Czech: opláchnutí n
• Finnish: huuhtelu (fi), huuhteleminen (fi), huuhtominen
• French: rinçage (fr) m

• Greek: ξέπλυμα (el) (xéplyma)
• Norwegian: rens m
• Swedish: rensning (sv) c, sköljning c, avsköljning c

hair dye

• Bulgarian: боя за коса f (boja za kosa)
• Finnish: hiusvärjäys
• Norwegian: toning m or f

• Persian: رنساژ‎ (ransâž)
• Swedish: toning (sv) c

Anagrams

• ESRIN, Isner, Neris, Reins, Rines, Siner, Siren, reins, resin, rines, risen, serin, siren