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wash up

verb as in finish

noun as in toilet

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Even worse, all along the northeastern coast of Japan, bodies began to wash up on shore.

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Large quantities of small plastic pellets have washed up on an East Sussex coastline causing a pollution incident, a council has said.

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"Frustrated" locals are being urged to avoid the wreckage of an abandoned boat washed up on a beach more than six weeks ago.

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They were discovered after being washed up by the flood waters in the storm, said Desmond McKenzie, Jamaica's minister of Local Government and Community Development.

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Work to clean up the pollution began in the 1980s, after particles were found washed up on the nearby foreshore.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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