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Embankment :: Embankment (n.) A structure of earth, gravel, etc., raised to prevent water from overflowing a level tract of country, to retain water in a reservoir, or to carry a roadway, etc..

Scaturient :: Scaturient (a.) Gushing forth; full to overflowing; effusive.

Overflow :: Overflow (n.) A flowing over, as of water or other fluid; an inundation..

Overflow :: Overflow (v. i.) To be superabundant; to abound.

Overfloat :: Overfloat (v. t.) To overflow.

Backwater :: Backwater (n.) An accumulation of water overflowing the low lands, caused by an obstruction..

Overwash :: Overwash (v. t.) To overflow.

Deluge :: Deluge (n.) A washing away; an overflowing of the land by water; an inundation; a flood; specifically, The Deluge, the great flood in the days of Noah (Gen. vii.)..

Fen :: Fen (n.) Low land overflowed, or covered wholly or partially with water, but producing sedge, coarse grasses, or other aquatic plants; boggy land; moor; marsh..

Swell :: Swell (v. i.) To increase in size or extent by any addition; to increase in volume or force; as, a river swells, and overflows its banks; sounds swell or diminish..

Exundation :: Exundation (n.) An overflow, or overflowing abundance..

Outswell :: Outswell (v. t.) To swell beyond; to overflow.

Inundate :: Inundate (v. t.) To cover with a flood; to overflow; to deluge; to flood; as, the river inundated the town..

Flowage :: Flowage (n.) An overflowing with water; also, the water which thus overflows..

Thwack :: Thwack (v. t.) To fill to overflow.

Rice :: Rice (n.) A well-known cereal grass (Oryza sativa) and its seed. This plant is extensively cultivated in warm climates, and the grain forms a large portion of the food of the inhabitants. In America it grows chiefly on low, moist land, which can be overflowed..

Slop :: Slop (v. t.) To cause to overflow, as a liquid, by the motion of the vessel containing it; to spill..

Float :: Float (v. t.) To flood; to overflow; to cover with water.

Submersion :: Submersion (n.) The act of submerging, or putting under water or other fluid, or of causing to be overflowed; the act of plunging under water, or of drowning..

Reclaim :: Reclaim (v. t.) Hence: To reduce to a desired state by discipline, labor, cultivation, or the like; to rescue from being wild, desert, waste, submerged, or the like; as, to reclaim wild land, overflowed land, etc..

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