Crossword-Solution: ALLUVION
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Alluvion | n. | Wash or flow of water against the shore or bank. |
| Alluvion | n. | An overflowing; an inundation; a flood. |
| Alluvion | n. | Matter deposited by an inundation or the action of flowing water; alluvium. |
| Alluvion | n. | An accession of land gradually washed to the shore or bank by the flowing of water. See Accretion. |
We have 7 clues for the answer “ALLUVION”
| Clue | Answers |
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| LAND formation by action of water | 1 answer |
| NEW land formation by actions of water | 1 answer |
| WASH of river against banks | 1 answer |
| gradual formation of new land, by recession of the sea or deposit of sediment | 1 answer |
| wash of the sea or of a river | 1 answer |
| Wash | 51 answers |
| flood | 62 answers |
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Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with ALLUVION (5)
See Alluvion.] Pertaining to, contained in, or composed of, alluvium; relating to the deposits made by flowing water; washed away from one place and deposited in another; as, alluvial soil, mud, accumulations, deposits.
The whole party crowded to the spot where Uncas pointed out the impression of a moccasin in the moist alluvion.
The accessions, which are made to land, bordering upon rivers, follow the land, say the civilians, provided it be made by what they call alluvion, that is, insensibly and imperceptibly; which are circumstances, that assist the imagination in the conjunction.
The accessions, which are made to lands bordering upon rivers, follow the land, say the civilians, provided it be made by what they call alluvion, that is, Insensibly and Imperceptibly; which are circumstances that mightily assist the imagination in the conjunction.
Alluvion is an imperceptible addition; and that which is added so gradually that you cannot perceive the exact increase from one moment of time to another is added by alluvion.
Quotes with ALLUVION (1)
Let us spend one day as deliberately as Nature, and not be thrown off the track by every nutshell and mosquito's wing that falls on the rails. Let us rise early and fast, or break fast, gently and without perturbation; let company come and let company go, let the bells ring and the children cry, -- determined to make a day of it. Why should we knock under and go with the stream? Let us not be upset and overwhelmed in that terrible rapid and whirlpool called a dinner, situated…