Synonyms and Antonyms of awash
1
containing, covered with, or thoroughly penetrated by water
- the streets were awash from the heavy rains
bathed, bedraggled, doused (also dowsed), drenched, dripping, logged, saturate, saturated, soaked, soaking, sodden, soggy, sopping, soppy, soused, washed, water-soaked, watered, waterlogged, watery, wet
deluged, drowned, flooded, inundated, overflowed
submerged, swamped
hydrated
dipped, dunked, splashed
aqueous
steeped
flushed, irrigated, laved, rinsed, sluiced
clammy, damp, dampish, dank, humid, moist, semimoist, wettish
boggy, miry, seepy, sloppy, squashy
bone-dry, hyperarid, ultradry
waterproof, water-repellent, water-resistant, watertight
baked, dehydrated, freeze-dried
droughty, parched, sere (also sear), sunbaked, thirsty
wrung
2
possessing or covered with great numbers or amounts of something specified
- the literary review is currently awash in submissions and will not be accepting any more until next year
abounding, abundant, flush, fraught, lousy, replete, rife, swarming, teeming, thick, thronging
brimming, bulging, bursting, chock-full (or chockful), crammed, crowded, fat, filled, full, jammed, jam-packed, loaded, packed, saturated, stuffed
clogged, congested, overcrowded, overfilled, overflowing, overfull, overladen, overloaded, overstuffed, surfeited
alive, animated, astir, bustling, busy, buzzing, humming, lively
bare, barren, blank, devoid, empty, stark, vacant, void
depleted, drained, exhausted
deficient, incomplete, insufficient, short
