flooded area
collocation in Englishmeaningsoffloodedandarea
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flooded
adjective
uk/ˈflʌd.ɪd/us/ˈflʌd.ɪd/
covered ...
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area
noun
uk/ˈeə.ri.ə/us/ˈer.i.ə/
a particular part of a place, piece of land, ...
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(Definition offloodedandareafrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Fish output increases at a decreasing rate with an increase infloodedarea.
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Larval breeding is not limited to the periphery of the alluvial deposits but occurs throughout thefloodedareaoutside the mangrove forest.
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The animals were released the following day in a 150-km2 protected forest area contiguous to thefloodedarea, 10 km east of the dam.
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Vast parts of the muddy and partlyfloodedareaare covered by dead mangrove trunks.
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Available maps of thefloodedareaand the resulting islands at different water levels were erroneous because the altitude of the hills had been estimated too roughly.
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Thefloodedareawas clearly defined and the work of dealing with the difficulty was very much assisted.
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Completely up-to-date figures are not available but thefloodedareahas now been reduced to roughly 12,000 acres.
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In this particularfloodedareahundreds of acres are under water and farmers and allotment holders have suffered very heavily.
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The suggestion that, in thefloodedarea, land mines have moved and become dangerous is being taken seriously.
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By no means all the food-producing value of thatfloodedareawas lost.
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There ate 303 acres offloodedareathat normally goes with the bings.
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In the last few days, we had been in imminent danger of having another io,000 acres added to thefloodedarea.
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Traffic in thefloodedareawas totally disrupted and, as the floods affected the inner ring road, the effects of the disruption were felt over a much wider area.
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Thefloodedareahas much increased.
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A pit quite near to these pits, but outside thefloodedarea, after having been closed for five years, was opened within the last two weeks by another company.
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Other monuments were relocated to the mainland, east of thefloodedarea.
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It is over 100 km long and covers a vastfloodedareawith numerous channels.
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It was decided to develop the surrounding area and leave thefloodedareaintact.
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During a train-ride through afloodedareawhere an entire tribe was said to have seen the dinosaur, the locomotive suddenly derailed and turned over.
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If the flood occurred at all, the sea level increase and thefloodedareaduring the reconnection were significantly smaller than previously proposed.
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