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say it: uh-WAHSH
awash is an adjective meaning "covered with water". It is pronounced /əˈwɑʃ/ — uh-WAHSH. It carries one recorded sense.
covered with water
“the main deck was afloat (or awash)”
“the monsoon left the whole place awash”
“a flooded bathroom”
“inundated farmlands”
“an overflowing tub”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for awash come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.