flooding

[US]/'flʌdɪŋ/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

n. overflowing
v. inundating

Phrases & Collocations

flood warning

flash floods

flooded roads

flood damage

flood evacuation

flood risk

water flooding

flooding velocity

Example Sentences

the flooding of the rivers is a trigger for breeding to start.

flooding disrupted rail services.

the dam burst, flooding a small town.

his old fears came flooding back.

flooding problems in low-lying areas.

flooding caused by tidal surges.

the headwork and the irrigation system.The project effectively controls flooding and provides a method of irrigation.

To prevent flooding; we shall have to divert the river from its course.

The dryness in my mouth vanished and I could feel the adrenaline flooding my body.

An estimated hedonic price equation is used to calculate the increases in housing prices as the exceedance probability of flooding decreases.

Some flooding from that overspill results—but not as much as if the spill were allowed to erode and destroy the levee itself.

And the boundary of them has the same lithologic character: the ravinement surface of river course or exposure mudstone of flooding plain and root clay.

The early 90's finds an unprecedented tide of rural workers flooding into big cities in China.

For the plate tower, in revamp for capacity increase the downpipe of the plates generally becomes the bottleneck, and flooding of the downpipe is liable to occur.The DJ type plates h...

It is emphasized that the first flooding surface (FFS) is used as a standard or useful marker in optimizing chronostratigraphic and lithostratigraphic boundaries.

Centuries of silt deposition and diking has caused the river to flow above the surrounding farmland, making flooding a critically dangerous problem.

Halosere A plant community in a succession that starts on land periodically inundated by the sea. Haloseres include salt-and flooding-tolerant pioneer communities on mudflats and saltmarshes.

The profiling/flooding efficiency and the injection technology of zeolite profile modificator(ZPM) in polymer flood are investigated on artificial cores,which contain 3 layers 0.

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