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freshet
There will be a freshet of goals in this series, including several from defensemen.
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Speakers wrestled with the freshet of platitudes, insisting that this time they were true.
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Water flow is highest during the spring freshet and lowest in the fall.
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A freshet is a flood or overflowing of a river caused by heavy rains.
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Being built close to the Saint John River, the town is usually affected by the annual spring freshet.
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That, lawyers say, may lead to a freshet of cases involving acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, or AIDS.
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In an ordinary movie, the situation might call for a freshet of tears to guarantee an audience's instant pity.
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A frothy freshet of one-liners does not keep most of this stultifyingly shallow play from being poisonously dull.
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To be sure, Congress obligingly poured out a freshet, then a flood, of programs in response to Johnson's Great Society speech.
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- The occurrence of a water flow resulting from sudden rain or melting snow
- A freshet can refer to one of two things: * A flood resulting from heavy rain or a spring thaw. Whereas heavy rain often causes a flash flood, a spring thaw event is generally a more incremental process, depending upon local climate and topography. ...
- (Freshets) A sudden, rapid increase in water levels in a stream, caused by heavy rains and/or melting snow. Freshets are usually associated with spring-time conditions, although it in coastal areas, they may also occur in the fall.
- (freshets) rushes of water from heavy rain or melted snow
- An increase of water flow into an estuary during the late winter or spring, owing to increased precipitation and snow melt in the watershed.
- The sudden overflow or rise in level of a stream as a result of heavy rains or snowmelt. (crue; crue nivale)
- A type of flood that is brought on suddenly by heavy rainfall or snowmelt.
- An increased flow of a river caused by rain.
- A sharp rise in discharge or a flood event associated with rainfall or snow melt
