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awash en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio
• /əˈwɒʃ/

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Hellenic *ə- Ancient Greek ἀ- (a-)der. English a- Proto-Indo-European *wed- Proto-Indo-European *-sḱéti Proto-Indo-European *wodsḱéti Proto-Germanic *waskaną Proto-West Germanic *waskan Old English wascan Middle English wasshen English wash English awash From a- + wash.

Meanings

1. 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:
   • 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:
2. (broadly) 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:
   • 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.
   • […] the whole country’s awash in guns and Bibles, 2019, Lucy Ellmann, Ducks, Newburyport, Galley Beggar Press:
   • Brighton station is awash with people paying a visit to the seaside. 2022 November 16, Paul Bigland, “From rural branches to high-speed arteries”, in RAIL, number 970, page 55:
   • 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
   • 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:
   • 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:

Forms

Synonyms

aslosh

Translations (16)

it inondato (washed by the waves or tide) · ru покрытый (covered, overspread) · da overskyllet (washed by the waves or tide) · hu elárasztott (washed by the waves or tide) · nl overspoeld (washed by the waves or tide) · es inundado (washed by the waves or tide) · fi veden peitossa (washed by the waves or tide) · ru заливаемый (washed by the waves or tide) · nl blank (washed by the waves or tide) · hu vízzel elárasztott (washed by the waves or tide) · bg наводнен (washed by the waves or tide) · fi vesirajassa (washed by the waves or tide) · bg залят (washed by the waves or tide) · de überschwemmt (washed by the waves or tide) · nb overskyllet (washed by the waves or tide) · ar مغسول بالأمواج (washed by the waves or tide)