awash

Examples

• All

• During the Late Cretaceous, the lush lowland plains were awash with water.

  Academic text (1991)

• Finally, he slept, and in the morning his world was awash with river water, and the heartbeat machine was still howling on the riverbank, boom-boom, boom-boom.

  Fiction book (1995)

• Shifts were changing at the cab stand, and the office was crowded, the floor awash with mud.

  Fiction book (1991)

• The tug is listing radically to the side, its deck awash with seawater, as Epps, Greer, and Murphy scramble with their gear to the crane.

  Fiction book (2002)

• The small island was left awash after the storm surge flooded the entire area.

• Following the flood, the park was awash in water, making it impossible to access.

Synonyms

A

afloat

vsawash

1 3.4

Covered with water after heavy rain or a flood

has identical meaning but is the main listed form

D

drenched

vsawash

1 3.9

Completely wet, for example from rain or sweat

focuses specifically on being covered or submerged by water

A

aswim

vsawash

• Archaic

8.8

Full of water or other liquid

emphasizes being actually covered or submerged by water

I

inundated

vsawash

6.1

A place covered with water after heavy rain or a flood

means covered or submerged by water regardless of cause

F

flooded

vsawash

1.5

Covered with water after heavy rain or when a river overflows

is the general state of being covered by water, cause not required

O

overflowing

vsawash

3.1

So full that water spills out and covers the area around it

describes being covered by water without implying that spilling occurred

Antonyms

D

dry

791 1.0

Not wet or without any liquid

How Flooded

submerged

4.2

awash

2 4.6

inundated

6.1

wet

800 1.0

damp

113 1.0

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology