overwash

present singular third person overwashes · participle present overwashing · participle past overwashed · past overwashed

1. transitiveTo wash too much or too often.

   Even worse than being caught in daylight is the mortification, by Mr. Moore’s nocturnal lights, of wearing black clothes so overwashed that they start to look gray.

   2007 January 15, Janet Maslin, “The Vampire Wears Flannel, and He Cheats on His Tan”, in New York Times

2. transitiveTo wash or flood over.

   The waves overwashed the stony beach.

3. intransitiveTo become flooded.

   A man on one of the beach islands sends his wife and kids to the shelter, remains behind with their dog to finish boarding up the house, then the only road off the island overwashes, and he's cut off.

   1998, Lee Gutkind, A view from the divide, page 104

plural overwashes

1. countableuncountableThe flow of water and sediment over the crest of a beach that does not directly return to the water body.