different between flooded vs awash

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?fl?d?d/

Adjective

flooded (comparative more flooded, superlative most flooded)

1. Filled with water from rain or rivers.
2. Filled with too much fluid.
3. (by extension) Overwhelmed with too much of something.

Synonyms

• inundated

Antonyms

• unflooded
• uninundated

Derived terms

• flooded gum

Translations

Verb

flooded

1. simple past tense and past participle of flood

English

Etymology

a- +? wash

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??w??/
• Rhymes: -??

Adjective

awash (comparative more awash, superlative most awash)

1. 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.
   • 1835, Martin White, Sailing Directions for the English Channel, London: The Hydrographic Office, Admiralty p. 26,^[1]

     The former rock is awash at low water […]
2. (by extension) Covered, overspread (with or in something).
   • 2005, Chris Ramirez, 2nd find excites museum diggers," The Arizona Republic, 26 Aug,

     The Valley landscape was more awash with greenery some 11,000 years ago.

   • 2019, Lucy Ellmann, Ducks, Newburyport, Galley Beggar Press,^[3]

     […] the whole country’s awash in guns and Bibles,

   • 2019 December 10, Yacht Club Games, "Story" (Liquid Samurai), in Shovel Knight Showdown (version 4.1), Nintendo Switch, scene: opening:

Synonyms

• aslosh

Translations

Anagrams

• sawah