Definitions
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- noun Plural form of
rainwater .
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Examples
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Structures were generally darkest at the top, where the ash gathered, but rainwaters and evening condensations had carried the stains over ledges and down walls.
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WILLIS (voice-over): The real damage can appear in days, even weeks after flood and rainwaters recede.
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No, we use large pumps, drainage pumps that actually pump rainwaters back over the levies out.
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So here, as opposed to the flatlands down in the hurricane zone where surges swept unimpeded, here in New Hampshire, you had rainwaters running off hillsides, concentrating in rivers and streams to a devastating degree, Anderson.
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Joanna drew rein on the brink of a stream which cut the roadbed, black rainwaters rushing with silken silence down the narrow channel between ice and frozen weeds.
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The East Coast Range having been passed, no more hills had to be crossed, for the land we next entered on is a plateau of rolling ground, sloping southward to the Ruaha river, which forms a great drain running from west to east, carrying off all the rainwaters that fall in its neighbourhood through the East Coast Range to the sea.
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In early December, as rainwaters had started the monthlong process of flooding mines and washing out rail lines, workers lined up before 1 p.m. at an easy-to-miss storefront depot in Mackay.
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Some minor flooding was still expected as the rainwaters flowed downstream into Nashville into the Pennington Bend area near the Gaylord Opryland Resort - which was hit hard in May - as well as some industrial areas and low-lying farmland.
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The eight-hour-long overnight downpour, which lashed parts of Purnia district, virtually transformed many residential areas of the divisional town into a floating city and rainwaters inundated many houses in posh localities like Navarataran.
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It was sheer luck that made the rainwaters rise too high to find Caylee's body for so long.
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