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/swɒʃ/ · noun
(technical) The water that washes up on shore after an incoming wave has broken..
It is not the direct battering that breaks the dyke, but overtopping, when the flow of water sweeps away the inland face, so swash length is a vital thing to accommodate, and to do that you must make an estimate of the highest possible tides.
The first process occurs when swash mixes air and sand, trapping air bubbles just below the beach surface.
The swash is made up of the remnants of a breaking wave.
According to what you say about the shells, there ought to be a thousand flamingos feeding in this very swash at this instant.
Marks northwest junction of main and swash channels.
This is defined as a modified ridge or swash bar that develops into a berm on the swash bar's seaward margin (Coastal Research Group, 1969, p. 455).
At Cape Hatteras, numerous vessels ran aground, “driven from their anchors and grounded on the swash and bar.”
As a first warning the boiling liquid lifts the cover and washes over it with a noisy swash and clatter.
Use swash when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Swash means (technical) The water that washes up on shore after an incoming wave has broken..
Common synonyms include bluster, tout, swagger, boast.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
It is not the direct battering that breaks the dyke, but overtopping, when the flow of water sweeps away the inland face, so swash length is a vital thing to accommodate, and to do that you must make an estimate of the highest possible tides.
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