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- verb Present participle of
reflood .
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Examples
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Those clever Russians are going to destroy us from the inside by reflooding our gentrified Garden of Eden with crack cocaine.
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Those clever Russians are going to destroy us from the inside by reflooding our gentrified Garden of Eden with crack cocaine.
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This shows the reflooding of the marshlands and regrowth of vegetation.
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But serious concerns remain: the water used for reflooding may not be sustainable as the population recovers and expands its agricultural efforts, and the region may have already suffered an irreversible loss of species diversity.
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Thorpe [4] found that in the Peace-Athabasca Delta, Canada, years with observed spring ice-jam flooding (and associated reflooding of perched basins) had high success in local trapping of muskrats.
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After nightfall on May 30, however, a spring thunderstorm blew in with a deluge of rain, churning roads into troughs of mud and reflooding the lowlands.18
Cavalryman of the Lost Cause Jeffry D. Wert 2008
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After nightfall on May 30, however, a spring thunderstorm blew in with a deluge of rain, churning roads into troughs of mud and reflooding the lowlands.18
Cavalryman of the Lost Cause Jeffry D. Wert 2008
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Of course, there's a lot we can do to help the people of Iraq dig up the mass graves, identify the victims, help the Marsh Arabs, where they're reflooding their devastated environment that was massacred by Saddam Hussein ...
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Officials in New Orleans say recovery efforts have been set back by a couple of weeks as Rita caused reflooding of part of the city's ninth ward.
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Water has been flooding into that decimated area, decimated by Katrina, reflooding it once again, and there are reports of flooding of up to 8 feet in some places, higher in others.
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