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swashing

/swosh-ing, swaw-shing/US // ˈswɒʃ ɪŋ, ˈswɔ ʃɪŋ //

挥霍,冲刷,挥舞,挥洒

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : tending to swash: swashing water.
    • : swashbuckling.

Examples

  • This swashing affects not only the broken part of the waves, but all the water between the outer breaker and the shore.

  • Even in Grave V. at Mycenae, we have a sword blade so massive at the top that it was certainly capable of a swashing blow.

  • She was noticeably down by the head, and black water was swashing forward of the break of the main-deck.

  • The swashing of the water made a sound (pluk, pluk, pluk, pluk) resembling that of the viscera of a bear as he moves along.

  • She sounded almost atop of us, and the whistling was followed by a swashing of water as though her propeller had been reversed.