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freshet

[ fresh-it ]

noun

  1. a freshwater stream flowing into the sea.
  2. a sudden rise in the level of a stream, or a flood, caused by heavy rains or the rapid melting of snow and ice.


freshet

/ ˈ´Ú°ùɛʃɪ³Ù /

noun

  1. the sudden overflowing of a river caused by heavy rain or melting snow
  2. a stream of fresh water emptying into the sea
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of freshet1

First recorded in 1590–1600; fresh (noun) + -et
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Synonym Study

See flood.
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The river, swollen with freshets from the thawing, was swifter than ever, exultantly rushing along.

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However, spring spill would be boosted, to help spring Chinook by providing something more like a spring freshet for young fish migrating to the sea.

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“The play itself is a freshet of good will, a celebration of the indomitability of man, a call to return to the earth,†the critic Mel Gussow wrote in the Times in 1979.

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All this drama bursts out in freshets of stagy verbiage and blubbering.

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Streams and freshets ran all over the Los Angeles landscape, and Arroyo de la Sacatela coursed virtually alongside the dozen or so acres of the Bimini Baths site.

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