Dictionary Entry
alluvion
alluvion is a 8-letter English word with 7 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Wash or flow of water against the shore or bank. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 16 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
8 letters · Scrabble 11 · Words With Friends 16 · 7 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
Wash or flow of water against the shore or bank.
- 2noun
An overflowing; an inundation; a flood.
- 3noun
Matter deposited by an inundation or the action of flowing water; alluvium.
- 4noun
An accession of land gradually washed to the shore or bank by the flowing of water. See Accretion.
- 5noun
clay or silt or gravel carried by rushing streams and deposited where the stream slows down
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- 6noun
the rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land
"plains fertilized by annual inundations"
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- 7noun
gradual formation of new land, by recession of the sea or deposit of sediment
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