Definitions for swashes

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Spelling: [swosh, swawsh]

IPA: /swɒʃ, swɔʃ/

Swashes is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 80 anagrams from letters in swashes (aehsssw).

Definitions for swashes

noun

1. the surging or dashing, sometimes violent, of water, waves, etc.
2. the sound made by such dashing:
3. the ground over which water washes.
4. Chiefly Southeastern U.S. a channel of water through or behind a sandbank.
5. Printing. an extending ornamental flourish, as on letters of certain fonts of italic or cursive type.

adjective

1. Printing. noting or pertaining to a character having a swash:

verb (used with object)

1. to dash or cast violently, especially to dash (water or other liquid) around, down, etc.

verb (used without object)

1. to splash, as things in water, or as water does:
2. to dash around, as things in violent motion.
3. to swagger.

Origin of swashes

First recorded in 1520-30; imitative

Examples for swashes

I whispered to him, when I had stepped out into the swash of the rain.

Over the edge of the swash of a wave I have gathered in oceans and possessed them.

They did as they were bidden, and then the little man said, "swash, swish!"

Had she seen the swash, no doubt she would have turned into the bay also.

They are getting ready to cut us off this side of the swash channel!

Such a swash of offal as I caught couldn't be found in Gehenna.

The feeble "swash" that answered the shake was not reassuring.

They did as they were bidden, and then the little man said, “swash, swish!”

Soon an uneasy, dancing motion, welcomes her approach to the swash.

Deming was drowned, his body flung up by the tide, rolling in the swash.