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Source: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
awash

	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]

Source: WordNet (r) 2.0
awash

	awash
     adj : covered with water; "the main deck was afloat (or awash)";
           "the monsoon left the whole place awash"; "a flooded
           bathroom"; "inundated farmlands"; "an overflowing tub"
           [syn: afloat(p), awash(p), flooded, inundated,
           overflowing]

Source: Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
awash

	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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