Definitions For Alluvion

noun

  • Clay or silt or gravel carried by rushing streams and deposited where the stream slows down
  • The rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land
  • Gradual formation of new land, by recession of the sea or deposit of sediment

Is Alluvions a Scrabble Word?

Words With Friends YES
Scrabble US YES
Scrabble UK YES
English International (SOWPODS) YES
Scrabble Global YES
Enable1 Dictionary YES

Points in Different Games

Scrabble
12
Words with Friends
17

The word Alluvion is worth 12 points in Scrabble and 17 points in Words with Friends

Examples of Alluvion in a Sentence

  • The nonstop torrential rains were threatening to produce an alluvion of biblical proportions

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Antonyms for Alluvions

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