spring flood

collocation in English

meaningsofspringandflood

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spring
noun
uk
/sprɪŋ/us
/sprɪŋ/
the season of the year between winter and summer, lasting from March to June north of the equator, and from September to December south of the equator, when the weather becomes warmer, leaves and plants start to grow again and ...
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flood
noun
uk
/flʌd/us
/flʌd/
a large amount of water covering an area that is ...
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(Definition ofspringandfloodfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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But it could not withstand the 1923springfloodand collapsed, an accident which shattered a bit of confidence in the new commission.
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Thespringfloodof 1796 was unusually heavy, and lake water started to leak into the canal.
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Water levels fluctuate by several feet from their low point in the summer to winter/springfloodstage.
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It remained closed and a large section of the eastern span was destroyed by thespringfloodof 1857.
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High water periods in thespringfloodlarge areas creating wetland soils and large areas of marsh.
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These are purely grazing animals they eat only grass species, and visit the parks forests only during thespringflood.
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The bridge is removed every winter and put back in the spring, after thespringflood.
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It rises due to thespringfloodwhich lasts 1.52 months.
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A years supply of pulpwood that was boomed up in the river was washed away in thespringflood.
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However, soon thereafter it was destroyed by aspringflood.
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One of her skates catches on a submerged branch of a tree that had fallen in during thespringfloodlast year.
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Artificial levees blockspringfloodwater that would bring fresh water and sediment to marshes.
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However, during thespringflood, there is a constant surface current from south to north.
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The bridge was washed away by aspringfloodthat year.
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During thespringfloodthe waters escaped through a ditch dug by a local man, and a new river formed.
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The dam was disassembled each autumn and set back in place after thespringflood, so it was good for shipping but useless against floods.
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Following thesespringfloodevents, water that remained in these channels formed ponds and lakes, where water percolated into the soil before they dried out.
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The response of fishes to periodic spring floods in a southeastern stream.
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At the very final stages of construction during a devastatingspringfloodlarge chunks of winter ice pushed the building off its foundation and it nearly toppled over.
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Winter freezing and spring floods cause the most dramatic events.
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