alluvion - Similar and Opposite Words

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Noun

clay or silt or gravel carried by rushing streams and deposited where the stream slows down

Synonyms

• alluvial deposit
• alluvial sediment
• alluvion
• alluvium

More generic

• deposit
• sediment

More specific

• delta
• placer

Related

• alluvial soil

Noun

the rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land

Synonyms

• alluvion
• deluge
• flood
• inundation

More generic

• geological phenomenon

More specific

• Noachian deluge
• Noah and the Flood
• Noah's flood
• debacle
• flash flood
• flashflood
• the Flood

Noun

gradual formation of new land, by recession of the sea or deposit of sediment

Synonyms

• alluvion

More generic

• geologic process
• geological process

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