awash

a.	1.	(Naut.) Washed by the waves or tide; - said of a rock or strip of shore;
	2.	Abounding; filled; covered; - used mostly with in or with, in phrases such as "stores awash with customers".

Adj.

1.

awash - 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" Synonyms: flooded, inundated, overflowing, afloat

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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