awash

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• Rhymes: -ɒʃ

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awash (comparative more awash, superlative most awash)

1. Washed by the waves or tide; said 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.
   • 1904, Jack London, The Sea-Wolf, ch. 39,

     The deck was continually awash with the sea which came inboard over the rail and through the scuppers.

2. (by extension) Covered, overspread.
   • 2005, Chris Ramirez, 2nd find excites museum diggers," The Arizona Republic, 26 Aug,

     The Valley landscape was more awash with greenery some 11,000 years ago.

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