1. Noun
Wash or flow of water against the shore or bank.
2. Noun
An overflowing; an inundation; a flood.
3. Noun
Matter deposited by an inundation or the action of flowing water; alluvium.
4. Noun
An accession of land gradually washed to the shore or bank by the flowing of water. See Accretion.
5. Noun
gradual formation of new land, by recession of the sea or deposit of sediment
Vocabulary classified under Nature and environment
6. Noun
the rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land; "plains fertilized by annual inundations"
Vocabulary classified under Geography
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