English
Noun
washover (countable and uncountable, plural washovers)
- The sediment deposited inland of a beach by overwash.
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2009 August 24, Sewell Chan, “Storm’s Tail Brings Higher Tides and a Little Danger to New York”, in New York Times:- “We try to give them an advantage, but when there’s a significant washover, that’s a natural occurrence, and there’s nothing you can do about it.”