wash over

Meaning

1. 1

   wash over sbliterary

   to suddenly affect sb strongly, so that they are not aware of anything else

   Waves of nausea washed over him.

2. 2

   wash over sb

   to happen to or around sb without affecting them

   She manages to let criticism just wash over her.

In the movies · 6

• ...this is probably where a new feeling would wash over me...Me and Earl and the Dying Girl2015
• Darkness washed over the Dude.The Big Lebowski1998
• But we do, and relief washes over me in an awesome wave.American Psycho2000
• And as each wave washes slowly over them,It's Such a Beautiful Day2012
• And as each wave washes slowly over them, the undertow quietly pulls their headlightsIt's Such a Beautiful Day2012
• - ...will wash over you constantly.C'mon C'mon2021

From the same entry

• wash your dirty linen in public
• wash your hands of
• won't wash
• wash away
• wash down
• wash off
• wash off
• wash out
• wash out
• wash up
• wash up
• it will come out in the wash