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Meanings of eyewash in English

Catalan
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Lotion consisting of a solution used as a cleanser for the eyes.

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Usage of eyewash in English
1
I tried to find out, but they gave me nothing but eyewash.
Greenmantle
2
Grandma knew it as an antiseptic eyewash; here it's also a pH buffer.
Wired
3
No one should ever use an eyewash, except by medical advice.
Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoh...
4
How good are we going to play when we are staggering around looking for an eyewash?
From a Certain Point of View
5
The Jew plot was eyewash.
The Guardian
6
All his yarns about the Balkans and the Jew-Anarchists and the Foreign Office Conference were eyewash, and so was Karolides.
The Thirty-Nine Steps
7
The solution to his problem, and ours, turned out to be a few drops of that fine old eyewash Murine.
The new yorker
8
Their stories of the trouble taken to avoid military contact with holy places and sites were all bunkum and eyewash.
How Jerusalem Was Won / Being the Record of Allenby's Campaign i...
9
The ordinary eyewash may be used for this purpose, or it may be injected after dilution to half its strength.
Special Report on Diseases of the Horse
10
The last two, if remediable at all, require separation by the knife, and subsequent treatment with a cooling astringent eyewash.
Special Report on Diseases of the Horse
11
Fennel powder may be employed for making an eyewash: half-a-teaspoonful infused in a wineglassful of cold water, and decanted when clear.
Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure
12
And that if Vickie knew who you were and why you were there, what they call a motive is nothing but eyewash?
Go home, stranger
13
The method was applied to eyewashes and nasal decongestant liquid medicines.
Pubmed
14
Why should we never use eyewashes except upon the advice of a competent physician?
Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoh...
15
Do they even have eyewashes on Tatooine?
From a Certain Point of View
16
I tried to find out, but they gave me nothing but eyewash.
Greenmantle
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Translations for eyewash
Catalan
col·liri
Eyewash through the time