This website uses cookies to ensure you get the best experience. Learn more

Another word for swash

Verb

  1. To flow or move with a low slapping sound

    2. See also:

    sounds

    move

  2. To hurl or scatter liquid upon

    3. See also:

    strike

  3. To walk with exaggerated or unnatural motions expressive of self-importance or self-display

    4. See also:

    self-love

    move

© Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus Copyright © 2010 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio. Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Sentence Examples

  • A strong swash occurs and this transports material up the beach forming a berm at the spring high tide mark.

  • If you are not prepared to buckle the swash, you should not join the Marines.

  • swash plate.

  • swash zone.

  • Customer Rating: Review Summary: A real swashbuckler... Review: ...that buckles every swash imaginable.

More sentences →

Words that mention swash in the Dictionary

Words near swash in the Thesaurus