washed up

Speech parts

1. washed up - Adjective

2. washed up - Verb

3. washed up - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

doomed to extinction

Source: WordNet

Alternative names

washed-up

Synonyms

ruined undone sunk has-been through done closed spent destroyed finished broken accomplished unsuccessful exhausted beaten
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Antonyms

large left BIG abandoned fresh cancelled
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Examples

If there's anything more mortifying than being famous at 14, it's being washed up right after. Moon Unit Zappa

This time Milo had gone too far. Bombing his own men and planes was more than even the most phlegmatic observer could stomach, and it looked like the end for him...Milo was all washed up until he opened his books to the public and disclosed the tremendous profit he had made. Joseph Heller

Two lost things that had survived the seas and arrived on a coastline. What did they do? They implanted themselves in the sand and grew into trees and lined the beaches. Sometimes a lot can come of being all washed up. You can really grow. Cecelia Ahern

I went right from wunderkind to washed up. Old. Been around too long. That's just the way I feel. That's my internal dialogue. Conor Oberst

Nothing, but nothing, is as washed up as a rock star past her prime. Bart Bull

Where there is no pitsand, we must use the kinds washed up by rivers or by the sea. Vitruvius

Close letter words and terms

washed away washed in the blood washed over washed-out washee washen