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undrown en · VERB

Etymology

From un- + drown.

Meanings

1. (rare, transitive) To remove the water from (something drowned or flooded); to unflood.
   • Recent uplift of the Maine and Oregon coasts has not been enough to "undrown" the larger valleys; the shorelines are still submergent. 1971, George Finiel Adams, Jerome Wyckoff, Landforms, page 143:
   • All available pumps were put into action to undrown the fifty-acre working area behind it. 1956, Helen Marie Newell, The Hardhats, page 210:

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