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adjective

awash adj.

Washed by the waves or tide; said of a rock or strip of shore; or specifically: (Naut.) Flush with the surface of the water, so that the waves break over it; of an anchor, etc.

Abounding; filled; covered; used mostly with in or with, in phrases such as "stores awash with customers".

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Etymology of 'Awash'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Awash" Quotes from Famous Books

... confidently. "Why, from the shore it will look awash with the water. No one will ever dream that there could be a soul alive underneath it. I begin to think you will do it, monsieur. At first it seemed hopeless. Now I really do think there is a chance. I should feel pretty confident if it was you and two of ...

— In the Reign of Terror - The Adventures of a Westminster Boy • G. A. Henty

... door, because the roar of noise behind it acts as a guide. The sea is getting up and is dashing halfway to the door as I crawl through. My boat is awash, pivoting to and fro on the grips ...

— The Lost Kafoozalum • Pauline Ashwell

... of Abyssinia flowing east is the Hawash (Awash, Awasi), which rises in the Shoan uplands and makes a semicircular bend first S.E. and then N.E. It reaches the Afar (Danakil) lowlands through a broad breach in the eastern escarpment of the plateau, beyond which it is joined on its left bank by its chief affluent, the Germama (Kasam), and then ...

— Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia

... the noonday beams of the sun under the occasional oaks that had strayed out into the open and didn't know how to get back. The middle of the site—several miles in extent—was a gray cypress swamp, with five or six hundred trees to the acre, and always awash. The lake end was "trembling prairie" marsh land subject to ...

— The Industrial Canal and Inner Harbor of New Orleans • Thomas Ewing Dabney

... free-board. She did not rise at the bows: not she! Her mast was dependent upon a forestay (spliced) and was not stepped, but worked in a tabernacle. She was a hundred and two years old. Her counter was all but awash. Her helm—I will describe her helm. It waggled back and forth without effect unless you jerked it suddenly over. Then it "bit," as it were, into the rudder post, and she just ...

— Hills and the Sea • H. Belloc

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