Awash

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  awash \a*wash"\, a. [Pref. a- + wash.]
     1. 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.
        [1913 Webster]


  
     2. Abounding; filled; covered; -- used mostly with in or
        with, in phrases such as "stores awash with customers".
        [PJC]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  awash
       adj : 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"
             [syn: {afloat(p)}, {awash(p)}, {flooded}, {inundated},
             {overflowing}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  48 Moby Thesaurus words for "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