Meaning & use
Awash
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Covered or flooded with water, or, figuratively, overwhelmed with or full of something.
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After the storm, the basement was awash with rainwater.
The market was awash with cheap imported goods.
A note on using this word
Originally a nautical term describing a ship's deck level with the waterline, 'awash' is now used broadly for anything overwhelmed by a flood of something.
Words with a similar meaning
floodedoverflowing
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Words with an opposite meaning
dry
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