awash
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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
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