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单词 flood mark
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Definition of flood mark in English:

flood mark

noun
  • A mark left or reached by the waters of a flooded river or other body of water.

    the tide peaked at 61 inches, well past the 40-inch flood mark
    Example sentencesExamples
    • On the cliff face to the right is the 1981 flood mark, over 40 metres above river level.
    • That included lifting the entire home up a level to get habitable zones out of the highest flood mark.
    • The White River is cresting, and that could hit the 100-year flood mark.
    • People faced an anxious wait to see how high the river would rise above flood marks.
    • Rainwater is a snap—just let it run to where it wants to go, and make sure you are above a thousand-year flood mark.
    • The divergent set of data includes campaign inscriptions, burial tombs, and riverbank flood marks.
    • That flood mark was over my head—most of us would have drowned, not in the filthy water, but under layers of plastic.
    • It had receded to 12.5 feet by Saturday afternoon, just above the 12-foot flood mark.
    • They can construct new buildings two feet above the 100-year flood mark.
    • In 1936, the spring freshet of the Connecticut River reached a record flood mark of 30.21 feet, flooding the quarries.
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