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swash (swäs̸h, swôs̸h)

intransitive verb

  1. to dash, strike, wash, etc. with a splashing sound; splash
  2. to swagger or bluster

Etymology: echoic

transitive verb

to splash (a liquid), as in a container

noun

  1. a body of swift, dashing water; specif., a channel cutting through or behind a sandbank
  2. a bar washed over by the sea
  3. the splashing of water or the sound of this
  4. a swaggering or blustering action

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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