awash

Speech parts

1. awash - Adjective

2. awash - Adjective Satellite

3. Awash - Proper noun

Meaning

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

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

flooded afloat overflowing inundated full dewy BIG WET flood loaded packed float crowded saturated stuffed
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Antonyms

free clear stark sere DRY empty
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Phrases with the word

less awash more awash

Anagrams

sahwa sawah

Examples

Modern bodybuilding is ritual, religion, sport, art, and science, awash in Western chemistry and mathematics. Defying nature, it surpasses it. Camille Paglia

You must be filled with expectancy. You must be awash in hope. You must wonder who will love you, whom you will love next. Kate DiCamillo

The spears of the bright sun, all brave with its conquest, Did hover unearthly, in banners of fire. I knelt in the garden, awash with the dawning, And a voice came so brightly, I covered my eyes. Nick Cave

Human worlds are always awash in superstition, only a stubborn elite proof against it. Sheri S. Tepper

Any important disease whose causality is murky, and for which treatment is ineffectual, tends to be awash in significance. Susan Sontag

Outside the open window The morning air is all awash with angels. Richard Wilbur

Close letter words and terms

awarn awarra awaruite awaste Awaswas Awat