Synonyms for swash
| Grammar : Verb |
| Spell : swosh, swawsh |
| Phonetic Transcription : swɒʃ, swɔʃ |
Top 10 synonyms for swash Other synonyms for the word swash
Définition 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
- 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
Antonyms for swash
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