Significados de almost awash en inglés

The deck was already almost awash with the sea.

The landing was almost awash with the swollen waters.

The boom came directly outboard and the deck rolled down until the scuppers were almost awash.

A longboat was cutting directly across their path, so full of people it looked almost awash.

The ground had been soaked with water before the burial, to the point of being almost awash.

It was a perfect painting of a ship-of-the-line in half a gale, her gunports almost awash, and he knew Catherine must have arranged it.

"These floaters that lie with deck almost awash will stand more hammering than a mud fort."

"We have not a moment to lose," he exclaimed; "the water is almost awash with the deck, and the junk cannot swim a minute longer."