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Antonyms for low water
Grammar : Noun |
Definition of low water
- As in low tide : noun tide when water is lowest
- As in ebb : noun regression; decline
- Why, he'd shut up tighter'n a clam at low water and he'd give you fits besides.
- Extract from : « Mary-'Gusta » by Joseph C. Lincoln
- The river is not fordable except in low water, and then in but few places.
- Extract from : « Ox-Team Days on the Oregon Trail » by Ezra Meeker
- At low water the sea sinks proportionally at Panama below the level of the Atlantic: the reason for this difference is obvious.
- Extract from : « A General Plan for a Mail Communication by Steam, Between Great Britain and the Eastern and Western Parts of the World » by James M'Queen, Esq.
- October and May are sometimes months of high and sometimes of low water.
- Extract from : « Life of Rear Admiral John Randolph Tucker » by James Henry Rochelle
- Owing to low water in the lake, laden boats could not come closer in.
- Extract from : « The Huntress » by Hulbert Footner
- As it was low water when we entered, it stuck up out of the water.
- Extract from : « Journal of Jasper Danckaerts, 1679-1680 » by Jasper Danckaerts
- That's the proper thing for a man in your position to do when he's in low water.
- Extract from : « The History of Sir Richard Calmady » by Lucas Malet
- Fortunately it was low water at the time, and the weather was calm.
- Extract from : « The Story of the Rock » by R.M. Ballantyne
- Not even a dinghy will cross it for an hour each side of low water.'
- Extract from : « The Riddle of the Sands » by Erskine Childers
- At low water we three, with seven others, stood ready to launch her.
- Extract from : « Tales of the Sea » by W.H.G. Kingston
Synonyms for low water
- abatement
- backflow
- dead low tide
- dead low water
- decay
- decrease
- degeneration
- depreciation
- deterioration
- diminution
- drop
- dwindling
- ebb tide
- fading away
- flagging
- going out
- lessening
- low ebb
- low tide
- low water
- mean low water
- outward flow
- petering out
- recession
- refluence
- reflux
- retreat
- retrocession
- retroflux
- shrinkage
- sinking
- slackening
- subsidence
- sweep
- wane
- waning
- weakening
- withdrawal
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