Fri 21 Feb, 2020 04:30 am
Still, my mother. persevered, awash in the delusion that I had kept my popularity secret from her all these years.. I want to know precisely what is meant by the phrase loolooking for Alaska "awash in the delusion"?
The sentence in question can be seen in context here:
https://allnovel.net/looking-for-alaska/page-1.html
What the author means is that his mother had a firmly-held delusion that he was popular in school.
Quote:awash
adjective
2. Overflowing with or as if with water: "Machines like Watson will be awash in new and rising rivers of data" ( Stephen Baker )
https://www.yourdictionary.com/awash
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