Meaning of 'swash' in Yoruba is: swash


swash: swash

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Noun(1) the movement or sound of water
Verb(1) make violent, noisy movements(2) dash a liquid upon or against(3) show off(4) act in an arrogant, overly self-assured, or conceited manner

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(1) the swash of the sea(2) the swash tends to push shingle up the beach(3) However, a few years on and no longer buckling a swash with his early vigour, tough battle boy Henry died of a tummy ache.(4) Doesn't mean he cannot swash or buckle or both, but it will require additional suspension of disbelief, particularly if he has a fistfight with some muscled-up 20-year old.(5) Though I could no longer see the clam, I knew it had pushed its siphon to the surface for feeding, and it occurred to me that the hydroid, by creating an eddy in the swash , might actually help the clam obtain food.(6) The first is that the crumbling dead corals swash about in the waves - not a good place for a baby coral to survive.(7) This is succeeded by plane-bedded sands dipping gently seaward, which are produced by the swash and backwash of the waves on the beach face.(8) Ferri revealed a madcap brilliance as Katherina, while Bocca's Petruchio buckled his swashes with rare comic flamboyance.(9) When a heavy lurch came, hot water swashed up and over, a dismal howl, and well I fancy the cook and his mate will be more careful in future!’(10) Likewise ‘Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves’ to distinguish from the other films in which Errol Flynn buckled swashes and stuff.(11) A solid surf beats against the breakwater, swashing spray on the sidewalk vendors and strolling passers-by.(12) His shoes were dampened and were soaked under the freezing water which swashed around.(13) After a cacophonous ascent and destructive return to earth, it dies disconcertingly into reverberations of swashing seashore breakers, intertwined with disorientating echoes of still wailing guitars.
Related Words
(1) swash plate
Synonyms
Verb
1. bluster
2. plash


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