Definitions for awash

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awash a·wash

Spelling: [uh-wosh, uh-wawsh]

IPA: /əˈwɒʃ, əˈwɔʃ/

Awash is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 36 anagrams from letters in awash (aahsw).

Definitions for awash

noun

1. a river in E Ethiopia, flowing NE through the Great Rift Valley to near the Djibouti border. 500 miles (805 km) long.

adjective, adverb

1. Nautical. just level with or scarcely above the surface of the water, so that waves break over the top. overflowing with water, as the upper deck of a ship in a heavy sea.
2. covered with water.
3. washing about; tossed about by the waves.
4. covered, filled, or crowded:

Origin of awash

First recorded in 1825-35; a-¹ + wash

Examples for awash

My idea is they used that in the air, when they were running on the surface or just awash.

Because it's awash an' visible only at the fall o' the spring tides.

Back then, every single newspaper, website, and news show (even the fake news shows) was awash in gridiron scandal.

The bull followed, deeper and deeper, till his sides were awash.

Ichikowitz acknowledged in the interview that the African continent is awash in weapons, particularly small arms.

The boat was some fifty yards from land by now, and was awash in a broken current.

She were all awash, though, sir, at high-water this morning!

Preening, arrogant, vindictive, and inexorable; awash with cash; corrupt; in bed with corporate America and big finance.

And note: None of these schools were anything like awash in funds.

The financial system is awash with money, yet the Federal Reserve accuses both consumers and institutions of hoarding it.