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waterflood

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
wa-ter-flood
IPA
17
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An inundation of water.

verb

To pump water into the ground around an oil well nearing depletion in order to loosen and force out additional oil.

Example Sentences

Etymology

From Middle English waterrflod, from Old English wæterflōd, equivalent to water + flood.

Origin

Word Breakdown

  • Root: waterrflod, wæterflōd

Inflected Forms

waterfloods (plural) waterfloods (present, singular) waterflooding (participle, present) waterflooded (participle, past) waterflooded (past)

Questions

What does waterflood mean?
An inundation of water.
Where does waterflood come from?
It is traced to Middle English.

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