Rinse | Mean of rinse in English Dictionary

/ˈrɪns/

• Verb
• to wash (something) with clean water and without soap
1. I rinsed my face in the sink.
2. Rinse out your mouth.
3. Rinse (off) the apple before you eat it.
4. rinse (out) a cup
5. He washed the dishes and then rinsed them thoroughly.
• to wash (something) with a liquid other than clean water
1. The tools were rinsed in alcohol.
• to remove (something) from an object by washing the object with clean water
1. She rinsed the dirt off the lettuce.
2. He rinsed the soap out of the cup.
• Noun

• an act of washing something with a liquid and especially with clean water
1. Give the apple a rinse [=rinse the apple] before you eat it.
• liquid that is used for rinsing something
1. a mouth rinse
2. She dunked the dish in the rinse water.
3. Use sanitizing rinse on the scissors.
• a dye that you put on your hair to change its color for a short time
1. a bottle of hair rinse