We often hear the term 'flood-ravaged' used in relation to some areas.
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Main street Ba just minutes ago as flood waters continue to rise.
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The aid agency Concern is appealing for help for Somali flood victims.
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It was the second major flood reported this week in the north.
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However, a flood warning remains in place along the lower River Shannon.
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Hospitals are full to overflowing, while water, food and power are scarce.
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The hall was filled to overflowing; one hundred guineas being taken in.
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The valley is full of people; the hotels crowded, the camps overflowing.
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Tilting the glass when pouring can also help prevent it from overflowing.
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In recent days, more and more vessels have been overflowing with people.
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The deluge of information is expected to increase efficiency and lower prices.
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The program has struggled under a deluge of thousands of unprocessed cases.
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Blistering heat can turn to a freezing deluge in minutes, Sillerud said.
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The number of malware attacks on point-of-sale systems is becoming a deluge.
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We ignored a deluge of irrepressible questions I could not answer now.
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Experts suggested the main concern was of inundation causing nuclear waste leaks.
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Erevall's mostly at sea level, so it's prone to storm inundation, but-
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Tradition speaks of a great inundation in Friesland in the sixth century.
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Hence irrigation must impart to the soil more salts than natural inundation.
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Across the railroad embankment it chopped the inundation into small crested waves.
Uso de alluvion em inglês
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The level surface of this alluvion is illustrated by the very slight descent of the Jhelam.
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Most of the mountains are arable, and even the prairies, in this section of the republic, are of deep alluvion.
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The whole party crowded to the spot where Uncas pointed out the impression of a moccasin in the moist alluvion.
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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.'
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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.
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Napoleon said it was an alluvion of French rivers,-theRhine, the Scheldt, and the Meuse,-andwith this pretext he added it to the Empire.
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But it may be alledged ,thatthose sand banks are increasing still with the alluvion of Germany, instead of being in a decreasing state.
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A level-topped bank; the water has cut its way down through the soft alluvion of an elevated plain to the limestone rock at the bottom.
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Along the base of cliffs and highlands-throughthe deep alluvions of countless ages-among stately forests and across extended plains, it flows without cessation.
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Alluvion never attached at all in the case of agri limitati, that is, lands belonging to the state and leased or sold in plots.
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20 Moreover, soil which a river has added to your land by alluvion becomes yours by the law of nations.