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Significats de overflowing en anglès

Covered with water.

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An overflowing; an inundation or flood, especially when the water is charged with much suspended material.\ (Source: BJGEO)

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Examples for "flood"
Examples for "flood"
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We often hear the term 'flood-ravaged' used in relation to some areas.
Radio NZ
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Main street Ba just minutes ago as flood waters continue to rise.
Radio NZ
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The aid agency Concern is appealing for help for Somali flood victims.
The Irish Times
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It was the second major flood reported this week in the north.
The Irish Times
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However, a flood warning remains in place along the lower River Shannon.
The Irish Times
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Experts suggested the main concern was of inundation causing nuclear waste leaks.
The Guardian
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Erevall's mostly at sea level, so it's prone to storm inundation, but-
Jacinto's Remnant
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Tradition speaks of a great inundation in Friesland in the sixth century.
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Vol...
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Hence irrigation must impart to the soil more salts than natural inundation.
The Earth as Modified by Human Action
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Across the railroad embankment it chopped the inundation into small crested waves.
Kings, Queens and Pawns: An American Woman at the Front
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The level surface of this alluvion is illustrated by the very slight descent of the Jhelam.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 22...
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Most of the mountains are arable, and even the prairies, in this section of the republic, are of deep alluvion.
The Prairie
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The whole party crowded to the spot where Uncas pointed out the impression of a moccasin in the moist alluvion.
The Last of the Mohicans
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Probable depth of alluvion is about one fifth of a mile, by inference from the depth of the Gulf of Mexico.'
Continental Monthly , Vol. 5, No. 6, June, 1864 / Devoted to Lit...
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The banks consisted of dark alluvion ten to fifteen feet above the water, bearing a dense growth of trees and shrubbery.
Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian ...

Flooding.

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Ús de overflowing en anglès
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Hospitals are full to overflowing, while water, food and power are scarce.
Reuters
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The hall was filled to overflowing; one hundred guineas being taken in.
The World's Great Men of Music: Story-Lives of Master Musicians
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The valley is full of people; the hotels crowded, the camps overflowing.
Out of Doors—California and Oregon
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Tilting the glass when pouring can also help prevent it from overflowing.
The Guardian
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In recent days, more and more vessels have been overflowing with people.
The Guardian
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In Robinson's case, unfortunately, the debit column is now full to overflowing.
The Irish Times
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Hospitals and treatment centres across the country are overflowing with cholera patients.
The Irish Times
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The blood ferments and bubbles; overflowing vitality seeks to extend its sphere.
Emile
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The universality of the Gospel is overflowing the banks of Jewish narrowness.
Expositions of Holy Scripture: the Acts
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The river Derwent is shown overflowing along the edge of the glacier.
The Evolution of an English Town
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His overflowing kindness discharged itself in the sincerest and most solemn asseverations.
The Ink-Stain (Tache d'encre) — Volume 3
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The population steadily grew; Rome was filling up like an overflowing marsh.
The Scientific Monthly, October to December, 1915
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One of the sinks was stopped up with paper towels, and overflowing.
The next to die
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It was held in the Methodist church, which was filled to overflowing.
Recollections and Letters of General Robert E. Lee
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The sidewalks were overflowing with pedestrians and the windows with curious spectators.
Les Misérables
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Or when the gutters are overflowing down the side of the house.
Dangerous Women
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