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

1. noun. Wash or flow of water against the shore or bank.
2. noun. An overflowing; an inundation; a flood.
3. noun. Matter deposited by an inundation or the action of flowing water; alluvium.
4. noun. An accession of land gradually washed to the shore or bank by the flowing of water. See Accretion.
5. noun. clay or silt or gravel carried by rushing streams and deposited where the stream slows down

   Synonyms: alluvium

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

   "plains fertilized by annual inundations"

   Synonyms: deluge, flood, inundation

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

Synonyms

alluvium, deluge, flood, inundation

Common word forms

alluvions

Words from these letters

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