low-lying
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- adjective
- /loʊˈlaɪɪŋ/
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bajo
- Residents should avoid low-lying areas, especially during heavy rain, as they are prone to flooding.
- low-lying areas
- low-lying land
- low-lying regions
So low lying areas will face increased risk of flooding.
- So low lying areas will face increased risk of flooding.
- There's a lot of grasslands, but there's not a lot of kind of like I guess like low lying places for, for flowering shrubs to grow.
- The rise in sea levels inundating croplands in places like the Nile Delta and Bangladesh and submerging low lying islands in the Pacific and Alaska.
Examples
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Heavy rains or flooding can bring spores to the surface or concentrate organic material and spores in low-lying areas.
Academic text (2014) -
Yet, these low-lying areas feature some of the densest human settlements in the world.
Academic text (1993) -
So low lying areas will face increased risk of flooding.
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In a medium to dry year, the low lying land does well and the land on the rise is subject to a drought.
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Residents should avoid low-lying areas.
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Bath and other low-lying cities least affected are already allowing residents to return home.
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We've had many reports of low-lying areas underwater.
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The rising water of the Seine has overrun its banks... flooding out thousands of homes in the low-lying areas.
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Periods of intense precipitation over other heavily populated low-lying areas would increase flood-related risks to property, infrastructure, and human safety.
Academic text (2008) -
Much of the surface ice cover of Greenland—from its thin, low-lying coastal edges to its two-mile-thick center—was melting.
Academic text (2012)
Synonyms
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To a position close to the ground
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Morphology
Etymology
The word low-lying combines low ('not high') and lying ('to be placed'), so it literally means 'placed low' near the ground or water. That's why low-lying areas are often near water and likely to flood.