awash
/əˈwɒʃ/
awash adjective: washed by the waves or tide (of a rock or strip of shore, or of an anchor, etc., when flush with the surface of the water, so that the waves break over it); covered with water.
Adjective
awash (comparative more awash, superlative most awash)
- Washed by the waves or tide (of a rock or strip of shore, or of an anchor, etc., when flush with the surface of the water, so that the waves break over it); covered with water.
- The former rock is awash at low water […]1835, Martin White, Sailing Directions for the English Channel, London: The Hydrographic Office, Admiralty, page 26
- The deck was continually awash with the sea which came inboard over the rail and through the scuppers.1904, Jack London, chapter 39, in The Sea-Wolf (Macmillan’s Standard Library), New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, →OCLC, page 319
- Covered, overspread (with or in something).
- Tonight, his mind was awash with visions:1953, James Baldwin, Go Tell It on the Mountain, New York, N.Y.: Knopf, →OCLC, part 2 (The Prayers of the Saints), page 80
- In the Sumerian language the word for water also means semen, and since Enki is the god of water, he is therefore the god of semen. In this ode to the Great Father, the land of the Sumerians is literally awash with semen.1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 162
Proper noun capitalized: Awash
Awash
- A market town in central Ethiopia.
- A river in Ethiopia, after which the town is named.
awash meaning in Malayalam and Arabic
awash in Malayalam
- flooded, submerged, under water
- ജലം കൊണ്ടുമൂടിയ, വെള്ളംനിറഞ്ഞ, വെള്ളം കയറിയ, പരിപ്ലുത, മുങ്ങിയ, വെള്ളത്തിനടിയിലായ
- inundated, flooded, swamped
- നിറഞ്ഞുകവിഞ്ഞ, ഉപതാരക, നിറഞ്ഞുകവിഞ്ഞൊഴുകുന്ന, പ്രളയബാധിതമായ, അമിതമായി നിറഞ്ഞ, നിറഞ്ഞ
awash in Arabic
- washed by the waves or tide
- مغسول بالأمواج
Examples of awash in a sentence
- but the river’s in flood / and the roads are awash / and the bridges break up / in the panic of loss.1979, Leonard Cohen, “Ballad of the Absent Mare”, in Recent Songs:
- Bulgaria's only attacking weapon was the wayward shooting of Martin Petrov, whereas England's attacking options were awash with movement in the shape of Rooney, Young and Walcott.2011 September 2, Phil McNulty, “Bulgaria 0-3 England”, in BBC:
- […] the whole country’s awash in guns and Bibles,2019, Lucy Ellmann, Ducks, Newburyport, Galley Beggar Press:
- THE LIQUID SAMURAI ROSE, AWASH IN THE MIRROR'S MAGIC.2019 December 10, Yacht Club Games, "Story" (Liquid Samurai), in Shovel Knight Showdown (version 4.1), Nintendo Switch, scene: opening
Synonyms of awash
Forms of awash
| comparative | more awash |
|---|---|
| superlative | most awash |
Origin of awash
From a- + wash.
Words that rhyme with awash
Questions about awash
- What does awash mean?
- Awash means washed by the waves or tide (of a rock or strip of shore, or of an anchor, etc., when flush with the surface of the water, so that the waves break over it); covered with water.
- What is awash in Malayalam?
- Awash in Malayalam is ജലം കൊണ്ടുമൂടിയ, വെള്ളംനിറഞ്ഞ, വെള്ളം കയറിയ. See Awash meaning in Malayalam.
- How do you use awash in a sentence?
- but the river’s in flood / and the roads are awash / and the bridges break up / in the panic of loss.
- What part of speech is awash?
- Awash can be an adjective or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce awash?
- Awash is pronounced /əˈwɒʃ/.
Words near awash in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: awash (page history and authors); Awash (page history and authors); awash (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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