awash

Definition

Washed by the waves or tide (of a rock or strip of shore, or of an anchor, etc., when flush with the surface of the water, so that the waves break over it); covered with water.

Etymology

From a- + wash.

Example Sentences

• "The former rock is awash at low water […]"
• "The deck was continually awash with the sea which came inboard over the rail and through the scuppers."
• "but the river’s in flood / and the roads are awash / and the bridges break up / in the panic of loss."