Antonyms for swash

Grammar : Verb

Spell : swosh, swawsh

Phonetic Transcription : swɒʃ, swɔʃ

Definition of swash

Origin : 1530s, "the fall of a heavy body or blow," possibly from wash with an intensifying s-. It also meant "pig-wash, filth, wet refuse" (1520s) and may have been imitative of the sound of water dashing against solid objects. The meaning "a body of splashing water" is first found 1670s; that of "a dashing or splashing" 1847.

verb splash
verb strut

Example sentences :

The feeble "swash" that answered the shake was not reassuring.
Extract from : « Thankful's Inheritance » by Joseph C. Lincoln

They did as they were bidden, and then the little man said, “Swash, swish!”
Extract from : « Irish Fairy Tales » by Edmond Leamy

They did as they were bidden, and then the little man said, "Swash, swish!"
Extract from : « The Golden Spears » by Edmund Leamy

Over the edge of the swash of a wave I have gathered in oceans and possessed them.
Extract from : « The Voice of the Machines » by Gerald Stanley Lee

I whispered to him, when I had stepped out into the swash of the rain.
Extract from : « The Blue Wall » by Richard Washburn Child

They are getting ready to cut us off this side of the Swash channel!
Extract from : « Macaria » by Augusta Jane Evans Wilson

Deming was drowned, his body flung up by the tide, rolling in the swash.
Extract from : « A Man to His Mate » by J. Allan Dunn

Soon an uneasy, dancing motion, welcomes her approach to the Swash.
Extract from : « The Civil War in America » by William Howard Russell

Such a swash of offal as I caught couldn't be found in Gehenna.
Extract from : « A King of Tyre » by James M. Ludlow

Had she seen the Swash, no doubt she would have turned into the bay also.
Extract from : « Jack Tier or The Florida Reef » by James Fenimore Cooper

Synonyms for swash

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