Sentence examples for beflood from inspiring English sources
verb
To flood around or about; flood all over; inundate.
Dr Alwash's work on hydraulic models of the marshes will help.The models, combined with detailed topographic information, allow him to predict how much water is needed to reflood an area to the depths necessary for proper marshland.
When he arrived, he found that some Marsh Arabs had already begun to break holes in the levies to reflood the land.
"Every time you think it's out, it starts smoking again," complained Sergei A. Andreyev, a soldier who was tending a hose at Fire No. 3. The only foolproof method of suppression is to reflood the bog, a tremendously difficult job.
Aleksei A. Yermolenko, head of the Department for Preservation at the Federal Forestry Agency, said an outbreak of peat fires in 2002 prompted the government of the Moscow region to draw up plans to reflood old peat mines, but they had not yet been carried out.
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg said the northeaster would bring a two- to four-and-a-half-foot surge in water levels during Wednesday's high tides, at roughly 1 p.m. and midnight — less than the record surge that Hurricane Sandy drove ashore, but enough to reflood low-lying coastal neighborhoods.
There is no point in reflooding if the result is a few centimetres of stagnant water.
Nearly a month later, in the wake of a second hurricane passing to the west, some levees were again overtopped and portions of the city were reflooded.
Basal Silurian strata virtually everywhere record a rapid rise in the level of the sea, which reflooded vast continental platforms.
By the time Hurricane Rita had reflooded parts of the city, there was almost no one left in town.
That approach was abandoned in the late 1950s, after natural gas was discovered in Siberia, but the bogs were never reflooded, though the authorities are currently weighing the idea.
The Brick police chief, Nils R. Bergquist, said he watched a woman walk out her front door and drop waist-deep into sand that had been made soupy by the storm that reflooded much of the island in late December.
