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Words related to alluvion

Related / Similar Words: alluvial sediment, alluvial deposit, alluvium, flood, inundation, deluge

Definition:

clay or silt or gravel carried by rushing streams and deposited where the stream slows down;

the rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land; "plains fertilized by annual inundations";

gradual formation of new land, by recession of the sea or deposit of sediment;

Hyponyms: placer, debacle, flash flood, flashflood

Derivational Morphology: inundate, deluge, submerge, flood, swamp

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