collapsing, declining, decurrent, descending, down-reaching, downfalling, downhill, downward, dropping, on the descendant, plummeting, sagging, sinking, tottering
Definitionn. sinking until covered completely with water
Last update: September 11, 2015
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Flut, Dutch vloed, from the same root as is seen in "flow," "float"), an overflow of water, an expanse of water submerging land,a deluge, hence "the flood," specifically, the Noachian deluge of Genesis, but also any other catastrophic submersion recorded in the mythology of other nations than the Hebrew (see DELUGE, THE). [Please select]
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He just managed to get in under the sluice gate without actually submerging his head, and to regain the brick tunnel. [Please select]
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Meat became almost prohibitive for the 'submerged tenth'--there was a rapidly submerging tenth. [Please select]
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=HELPS TO STUDY= Tell of the preparations made for the submerging of the _Kate_. [Please select]
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So to-night his gloomy reflections ran--to their submerging wave of self-reproach. [Please select]
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The great wave of Oriental despotism had spent its force without submerging freedom. [Please select]
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