单词 | freshet |
释义 | freshet (once / 7078 pages) n WORD FAMILY freshet: freshets USAGE EXAMPLESThe resulting freshets carried streams of fresh water far out to sea and drew in unusual numbers of salmon. Rachel Carson, Silent Spring(1962) Resolve had begun to flow into him, at first like a freshet, then like a river. Daniel James Brown, The Boys in the Boat: Nine American...(2014) One recent fall day, freshets of melted snow tumbled over rock ledges and down hills, past stands of Rocky Mountain firs. New York Times(Nov 22, 2014) n the occurrence of a water flow resulting from sudden rain or melting snow Syn|Hyper spate flow, flowing the motion characteristic of fluids (liquids or gases) |
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