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Overflowing (in)
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awash
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Word definitions for awash in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ The ship leaned further to starboard and soon the decks were awash . ▪ The toilet leaks, leaving the bathroom floor awash in slimy water. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Mark realized what he was doing and left the chapel ...
Usage examples of awash.
The bathroom floor was littered with shards of shattered ashet and the walls were awash with grease from the exploded goose.
The cougar cub, its nest now awash with water, scrambled from side to side on the tiny island as first one edge, then another submerged.
Bullets had stitched the walls, smashing the framed Hokusai and Yoshitosi woodblocks hanging over the futon where Jennifer lay quiet and still as death, awash in a sea of blood.
Before Dawn Summens came onto the scene, Greg Grom had been awash in women.
Awash with cooties, she was unable to locate any Purell at the moment, so she sprayed herself with glass cleaner and patted her clothes and apron with her white gloves.
With two hands he pulled both doors open slowly, revealing a chamber awash with candlelight.
Here Vertorix had first fallen foul of the Children, as they dragged Tamera away, and here where I now stood the floor had been awash with blood.
The floor was awash in blood, the big artery still spewing it out, but slowing the flow as the heart finished the last of it.
His last thought before drifting off was about tripling the guard first thing in the morning, and that was the first thing he thought ofwhen he woke to a room awash in artificial sunlight.
And every now and then a tanker passed them, decks almost awash, with oil from Kuwait, Bahrain and Dahran.
The inner berths are sheltered to a considerable extent by the deep-water jetty but the dock alongside is awash.
It was all about the Channel tunnel and a landscape awash in Eurotrash, and French fashion victims, and acid rain, and lugubrious Belgians, and Iranian language students, and lager louts swilling Heineken, and football hooligans, and holes in the ozone layer, and Italian playboys, and South American drug lords, and Swiss banks, and AmEx Goldcards, and the greenhouse effect, and the Age of Inconsequence, and soon and so forth.
So the four of them had sat in a room awash in faecal water, eating and trying not to vomit, bickering and failing to make plans.
The gate opened to the southwest, and the road led from it into a field of brilliant crimson fireweed and pink wild heather awash in a ground of green.
His mouth was awash in regurgitated Dylar foam, half chewed tablets, flyspeck shards of polymer.