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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

... they were sailing in a regular sloop, and that, too, going "with lee rail awash"; for instead of the soft crooning sound the runners made usually, there was a slash and a swish of ripples cloven apart; and instead of the little fountains of ice-dust which rise from the heels of the sharp shoes when the boat is skimming the frozen surface, there rose long ...

— The Dozen from Lakerim • Rupert Hughes

... the 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

... "About five points off the starboard bow, sir. Leastwise, sir, it aren't a sail. It's a big boat, bottom upwards and just awash." ...

— The Ocean Cat's Paw - The Story of a Strange Cruise • George Manville Fenn

... huge beam swell rolling 35 deg. each way, and having stood out a heavy gale with a high sea. In both she has turned up trumps, and really I think a better little sea boat never floated. Compared to the Loch Torridon—which was always awash in bad weather—we are as dry as a cork, and never once shipped a really heavy sea. Of course a wooden ship has some buoyancy of herself, and we are no exception. We are certainly an exception for ...

— The Worst Journey in the World, Volumes 1 and 2 - Antarctic 1910-1913 • Apsley Cherry-Garrard

... hair and her slanting eyes, for she is too fragile a fraeulein to be toting around those gigantic German schnitzels and bifsteks, those mighty double portions of sauerbraten and rostbif, those staggering drinking urns, overballasted and awash. ...

— Europe After 8:15 • H. L. Mencken, George Jean Nathan and Willard Huntington Wright

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