awash \a*wash"\, a. [Pref. a- + wash.]

1. Washed by the waves or tide; -- said of a rock or strip of shore; or specifically: (Naut.) flush with the surface of the water, so that the waves break over it; -- of an anchor, etc. [1913 Webster]

2. Abounding; filled; covered; -- used mostly with in or with, in phrases such as "stores awash with customers". [PJC]

Source: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
 

48 Moby Thesaurus words for "awash": afloat, at flood, bathed, deluged, dipped, drenched, dribbling, dripping, dripping wet, drowned, engulfed, floating, flooded, immersed, in spate, inflood, inundated, macerated, oozing, overflowed, overwhelmed, permeated, saturated, seeping, soaked, soaking, soaking wet, soaky, sodden, soggy, sopping, sopping wet, soppy, soused, steeped, submerged, submersed, swamped, swept, washed, water-borne, water-washed, waterlogged, watersoaked, weeping, weltering, whelmed, wringing wet

Source: Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
 

awash adj : 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" [syn: afloat(p), awash(p), flooded, inundated, overflowing]

Source: WordNet (r) 2.0
 

Awash \A*wash"\, a. [Pref. a- + wash.]

Washed by the waves or tide; -- said of a rock or strip of shore, or (Naut.) of an anchor, etc., when flush with the surface of the water, so that the waves break over it.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)