to reflood

Examples

• All

• But when rain is so infrequent that the little temporary pools dry up, gravid females carry their eggs until heavy rains reflood the sites.

  Academic text (1992)

• Fifty percent of the marshes have been reflooded, and the former inhabitants, who had been forcibly relocated, are returning.

  Academic text (2004)

• Supply roads were cut through the marshes, and large tracts were dried and then reflooded for strategic purposes, as Saddam's army blocked Iranian advances and hunted political enemies and weapons smugglers.

  Academic text (2007)

• The heavy rains were expected to reflood the areas that were previously drained.

• The plan to reflood the basin was announced to help improve the local ecosystem.

Synonyms

F

to flood

vsto reflood

126 2.1

To fill a place with more things than it can handle

applies this filling action again after the area was drained or dried

I

to inundate

vsto reflood

35 6.8

To cover a place with water or give someone too much to deal with

repeats that covering by water after an area was drained

D

to deluge

vsto reflood

2 6.0

To cover an area with water

does the same again after the place has been dried or emptied

Antonyms

D

to dry out

55 2.4

To become dry or make something no longer wet

D

drain

2 1.4

The act of letting liquid flow out

How Flooded

to deluge

2 6.0

to inundate

35 6.8

to submerge

23 3.9

to reflood

1 5.0

to soak

196 1.0

wet

16 1.0

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology