awash
When something's awash, it's doused or covered with water. If your canoe is awash with seawater, it's time to start bailing.
A beach might be awash during high tide, and your beach cottage could be awash after a tropical rain. The decks of a boat are often described as being awash during a storm, flooded with water. Things can be figuratively awash, too: "The movie premiere was awash with photographers and fans." Awash was originally a nautical word meaning "flush with," from the 15th-century meaning of wash, "land alternately covered and exposed by the sea."
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covered with water“the monsoon left the whole place awash”synonyms: afloat, flooded, inundated, overflowingfullcontaining as much or as many as is possible or normal
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Vocabulary lists containing awash
Shipwrecked and blinded from a torpedo attack, Phillip must conquer his prejudices when his only companion is an elderly West Indian man named Timothy.
During World War II, a 12-year-old girl named Annabelle befriends a reclusive veteran and contends with a vicious bully.
With a name that translates into Stout Heart, fifteen-year-old Mafatu, the son of the Great Chief of the Polynesian island of Hikueru, is determined to conquer his fear of the sea.