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awash
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective awash has 1 sense
- awash(s = adj.all) afloat, flooded, inundated, overflowing - covered with water; "the main deck was afloat (or awash)"; "the monsoon left the whole place awash"; "a flooded bathroom"; "inundated farmlands"; "an overflowing tub"
CIDE DICTIONARY
awash, a. [Pref. a- + wash.].
- Washed by the waves or tide; -- said of a rock or strip of shore; [1913 Webster]
- Abounding; filled; covered; -- used mostly with
in orwith , in phrases such as “stores awash with customers”. [PJC]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
awash, predic.adj.
1 level with the surface of water, so that it just washes over.
2 carried or washed by the waves; flooded.
1 level with the surface of water, so that it just washes over.
2 carried or washed by the waves; flooded.
THESAURUS
awash
afloat, at flood, bathed, deluged, dipped, drenched, dribbling, dripping, dripping wet, drowned, engulfed, floating, flooded, immersed, in spate, inflood, inundated, macerated, oozing, overflowed, overwhelmed, permeated, saturated, seeping, soaked, soaking, soaking wet, soaky, sodden, soggy, sopping, sopping wet, soppy, soused, steeped, submerged, submersed, swamped, swept, washed, water-borne, water-washed, waterlogged, watersoaked, weeping, weltering, whelmed, wringing wet
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