awash
uh wosh
- s covered with water
the main deck was afloat (or awash)
the monsoon left the whole place awash
- The region is awash in cheap diet aids manufactured in largely unregulated Chinese factories.
- After the ceremony, formerly impecunious researchers will find themselves awash in funding, showered with speaking gigs and offered their pick of jobs.
- Prime Minister Harold Wilson had barely got Britain's seven-week-old shipping strike settled when he found himself last week awash in a new sea of crises.