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sunny-day flooding

sunny-day flooding noun: flooding that is caused by something other than rain, such as a tidal wave or the failure of a dam.

Noun

sunny-day flooding (uncountable)

  1. Flooding that is caused by something other than rain, such as a tidal wave or the failure of a dam.
    • Increasingly, low-lying coastal cities in the United States are experiencing what’s known as sunny-day flooding, when all it takes is a high tide to send water gushing into the streets.2020 April, Elizabeth Kolbert, “Why we won't avoid a climate catastrophehttps://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2020/04/why-we-wont-avoid-a-climate-catastrophe-feature/”, in National Geographic

Questions about sunny-day flooding

What does sunny-day flooding mean?
Sunny-day flooding means flooding that is caused by something other than rain, such as a tidal wave or the failure of a dam.
What part of speech is sunny-day flooding?
Sunny-day flooding is a noun.

Words near sunny-day flooding in the dictionary

  1. sunny side up
  2. Sunny Slopes
  3. Sunny South
  4. Sunny State
  5. sunny uplands
  6. sunny-day flooding
  7. sunny-side down
  8. sunny-side up
  9. sunnyasee
  10. sunnyasees
  11. sunnyasi

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