awash
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4.1
- adjective
- /əˈwɔʃ/
:
inundado
- The streets were awash with water after the heavy rain last night.
- the world was awash
The reality is we're awash in data right now.
- The reality is we're awash in data right now.
- Nothing like the world of particle physics to get the mind awash with joy.
- A time of huge plasticity and a time when you know, the world is awash with stereotypes.
- But that these are things that we can find ourselves awash in if we are doing the right things.
- And so a world awash in mercenaries is a world with more war.
- And Next up, we move on to the backseat of the PT Cruiser, where again, this car is awash in Chrysler innovations.
- But but yeah, no, no, I, I think we don't know what to do with artists because the, our society is awash in entertainment, right?
- I am awash in wonder the way I am when I'm in nature and I meet a really interesting creature.
- You know, at that time it was considered, you know, the, for the rich, the wealthy, the fabulous, the, you know, this well, then then the Miami became awash in it.
- Because believe it or not, the Premier League is awash with mathematicians.
- The city was awash with the pale indigo of the Jacaranda trees, and there's an old proverb which says that Jacaranda time is madness time.
- And so that the classes were kind of awash.
- It seemed to be awash and so much bullshit that I just couldn't bring myself to do something that felt so soft and potentially BS.
Examples
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Every nation is awash with data.
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By late afternoon, the storm had subsided, leaving the landscape awash in a palette of whites and grays.
Fiction book (1996) -
The reality is we're awash in data right now.
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Our children will grow up in a world awash in information.
Academic text (2015) -
I am awash in wonder the way I am when I'm in nature and I meet a really interesting creature.
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The feeling of being awash in sorrow and thinking it would have no end.
Fiction book (1991) -
Especially since Iraq's liberation, the region has been awash in foreign money and aid projects.
Academic text (2007) -
A time of huge plasticity and a time when you know, the world is awash with stereotypes.
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The culture in which we live now is awash with music of improvisation that's been sliced, diced, layered, and, God knows, distributed and sold.
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So we are now awash with krakens popping up in pieces by Victor Hugo, Jules Verne, and John Wyndham.
Synonyms
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3.5
To get more things than you can handle
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2.9
Full of a lot of something, often too much
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4.6
Completely covered with a strong feeling, color or bright light
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3.4
Covered with water after heavy rain or a flood
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5.2
So full that it almost overflows
A place covered with water after heavy rain or a flood
So full that water spills out and covers the area around it
Antonyms
How Filled
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Awash is made of a- meaning 'on' and wash meaning 'water moving over something', and by a simple change it came to mean 'filled with' a large amount of something, as in being 'awash with emails' or goods.