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washed-upadjective1Deposited by the tide on a shore: washed-up jellyfish...- Flat as a washed-up jellyfish, the 217 hectare sand cay is only 4m above sea level at its highest point.
- I walked the tide line to find the morning's washed-up gifts; stepped carefully between jellyfish the size of dinner plates; dug for escaping mole crabs and wiggling coquinas in hand-made tidal pools.
- Most of these insects colonized the margins of the sea: places such as mangrove forests, salt marshes, tide pools, sandy beaches, clumps of washed-up seaweed, and crevices at the upper reaches of rocky shores.
2 informal No longer effective or successful: a washed-up actress...- The world would be a much better place if today's washed-up actresses saw patriotism as the route to respectability.
- Private eye Harry Moseby is hired by a washed-up actress to find her runaway teenage daughter.
- His performance is also a tour de force, and it is a measure of how much the viewer buys in to his character, a washed-up TV actor, that you are left doubting the sincerity of his big emotional scene.
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