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  • adjective Not flooded.

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un- +‎ flooded

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Examples

  • Cabs, carts, and every kind of vehicle concentrated in the unflooded streets, were blocked into a solid mass that surpassed the wildest nightmares of congested traffic.

    The Paris Flood of 1910 | Edwardian Promenade 2010

  • And the Mediterranean valley was still unflooded; the Pillars of Hercules would stand fast for ages yet, before the ocean broke through and the false, sweet legend of Atlantis was born.

    Tin 2010

  • And the French Quarter, with a thriving gay population, went unflooded.

    Your Right Hand Thief 2008

  • The rivers of the Park are lined with beaches of white sand during the dry season and flooded forest during the wet season, There are secondary waterways of differing sizes: igarapés (streams), paranás (braided channels separated from a river by strips of unflooded land) and ria lakes, typical of large rivers in the Amazon region.

    Jaú National Park, Brazil 2008

  • And the French Quarter, with a thriving gay population, went unflooded.

    Archive 2008-05-01 2008

  • Seasonal distribution of large mammal populations in the unflooded middle Zambezi Valley.

    Mana Pools National Park, Sapi and Chewore Safari Areas, Zimbabwe 2009

  • I understand that some assessors were overwhelmed by the task, but I don't understand lowering the estimated building values on an unflooded street.

    Your Right Hand Thief 2007

  • Meanwhile, the media never paid attention to the real rampage that took place openly across the river, even though there were corpses lying in unflooded streets and testimony everywhere you looked -- or I looked, anyway.

    Rebecca Solnit: The Grinning Skull 2009

  • Ngorongoro is the largest intact, inactive and unflooded caldera in the world.

    Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Tanzania 2009

  • New Orleans mayor Ray Nagin, announcing that four unflooded neighborhoods, including the French Quarter, would reopen "A lot of people say if you want to go abroad and get a visa for Canada or citizenship and be a millionaire, get yourself raped."

    Perspectives 2008

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