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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of reflood.

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Examples

  • The marshes that Ma helped to convert into dry land for farming during the Cultural Revolution were being reflooded and turned into rice paddies.

    When a Billion Chinese Jump Jonathan Watts 2010

  • The marshes that Ma helped to convert into dry land for farming during the Cultural Revolution were being reflooded and turned into rice paddies.

    When a Billion Chinese Jump Jonathan Watts 2010

  • The marshes that Ma helped to convert into dry land for farming during the Cultural Revolution were being reflooded and turned into rice paddies.

    When a Billion Chinese Jump Jonathan Watts 2010

  • Later, realizing their mistake, they dammed it and reflooded it, blocking the essential flow that had always kept the water clear and oxygenated.

    Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

  • Later, realizing their mistake, they dammed it and reflooded it, blocking the essential flow that had always kept the water clear and oxygenated.

    Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

  • In the latter case, the larvae remain within the matrix until the pool is reflooded.

    Insecta (Aquatic) 2008

  • Record snowpack melts have provided more and better quality water than expected, and some reflooded marshes now function well by several measures.

    May 30th, 2006 2006

  • New Orleans 'devastated Ninth Ward neighborhood is nearly dry after Hurricane Rita reflooded the area last weekend.

    CNN Transcript Oct 2, 2005 2005

  • There are areas that were flooded by Hurricane Katrina that have been reflooded now by Hurricane Rita.

    CNN Transcript Sep 25, 2005 2005

  • The city's devastated Ninth Ward neighborhood is nearly dry after Hurricane Rita reflooded the area last weekend.

    CNN Transcript Oct 2, 2005 2005

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