Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To wash or flow over; spread over or on.
- In geology, consisting of drift carried by streams from a glacier and deposited on the outer side of its moraine.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To overflow.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To
wash too much or too often. - verb intransitive To become
flooded . - noun The flow of
water andsediment over thecrest of abeach that does not directly return to the water body.
Etymologies
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Examples
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As of earlier this morning, peak sustained winds along the N.C. coast were in the 45-60 mph range (tropical storm force) with gusts as high as around 75-80 mph, and maximum storm surges were around 2-3 feet resulting in ocean overwash.
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Conditions are to rapidly improve -- with flood waters and overwash receding -- as Earl continues to move north and east away from the area into this afternoon.
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High seas up to 25 feet are possible just offshore of the Outer Banks (10-15 feet offshore VA/MD/DE beaches) with significant ocean overwash and sound-side flooding.
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Protect natural processes of longshore drift, erosion and overwash, which maintain coastal systems.
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The Army Corps of Engineers told us that on the Industrial Canal, those pictures that you were seeing are wave overwash of the Industrial Canal.
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There is an occasional direct overwash from the Atlantic Ocean during major storms.
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Water is already starting to overwash Ariola Drive road right next to the beach.
County Dithers While Island Roads Flood Beach Blogger 2005
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A continuous sheet of storm-generated overwash deposits is observed in this low-lying and uninhabited portion of the barrier island.
Archive 2005-09-01 Beach Blogger 2005
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Water is already starting to overwash Ariola Drive road right next to the beach.
Archive 2005-08-01 Beach Blogger 2005
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A continuous sheet of storm-generated overwash deposits is observed in this low-lying and uninhabited portion of the barrier island.
Ivanizing the Day (Updated) Beach Blogger 2005
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