overtopping

Speech parts

1. overtopping - Noun

2. overtopping - Adjective

3. overtopping - Verb

Derived from overtop

Meaning

of Overtop

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

emerging commanding topping towering bouncing bulging ballooning bagging billowing beetling bellying bloating bunching looming bulking
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Antonyms

common small little low short modest
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Examples

And do not think, my boy, that because I, impulsively broke forth in jubillations over Shakspeare, that, therefore, I am of the number of the snobs who burn their tuns of rancid fat at his shrine. No, I would stand afar off & alone, & burn some pure Palm oil, the product of some overtopping trunk. Herman Melville

According to the laboratory tests, empirical correlations related to average overtopping discharge were derived to analyze the resistance of levee against erosion. Source: Internet

Coastal Engineering.56: 244–259 studied the effect of combination of wave overtopping and storm surge overflow on the erosion and scour generation in levees. Source: Internet

Factors that cause levee failure include overtopping, erosion, structural failures, and levee saturation. Source: Internet

Laboratory study of combined wave overtopping and storm surge overflow of a levee. Source: Internet

Predicting soil erosion and scour generation when overtopping happens is important in order to design stable levee and floodwalls. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

overtook owing to overtop overtopped overtopple overtorque overtourism