Speakur

Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

opening the floodgates

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.71 in modern English

Syllables
open-ing the flood-gates
IPA
31
Scrabble Score
20
Letters
3
Syllables
13
Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

present participle and gerund of open the floodgates

Questions

What does opening the floodgates mean?
present participle and gerund of open the floodgates

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