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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

... kamlikas, as they are called—are provided with draw-strings at wrists, face, and bottom, so that when the skirt is stretched over the rim of the cockpit and corded tight, it renders the canoe well-nigh waterproof, even though the decks are awash. ...

— The Silver Horde • Rex Beach

... treasure God had given him, for the moment the material things of life were forgotten. And, indeed, if he had searched he would have found only half a sack of potatoes in the caboose, for the lazarette was awash, and the water in the ...

— The Blue Lagoon - A Romance • H. de Vere Stacpoole

... peacefully carried long streaks of foam from the night's turmoil. The first thing that the rays of morning gilded was the battered hulk of a Norwegian barkentine ashore off the Beach of Nazaret, its nose buried in the sand, its midships awash, its bilges agape and in splinters, while strips of canvas floated from the rigging tangled ...

— Mayflower (Flor de mayo) • Vicente Blasco Ibanez

... his whistle had summoned, were crouching for shelter amid the wreckage of the forecastle with grapnels ready. Within seven or eight yards of the Victorieuse, when their way seemed spent, and their forward deck already awash under the eyes of the jeering, cheering Frenchmen, those men leapt up and forward, and hurled their grapnels across the chasm. Of the four they flung, two reached the Frenchman's decks, and fastened there. Swift as thought itself, was then the action of ...

— Captain Blood • Rafael Sabatini

... was a small conning, or observation tower, with auxiliary and steering and controlling apparatus there. This was to be used when the ship was moving along on the surface of the ocean, or merely with the deck awash. There was a small flat deck surrounding the conning tower and this was available when the craft was ...

— Tom Swift and his Submarine Boat - or, Under the Ocean for Sunken Treasure • Victor Appleton

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