overtop
Example Sentences
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That surfeit of water fed the typically trickling river into a torrent — overtopping and weakening the 75-year old earthen levee.
From Los Angeles Times
The family of storms that descended on the state this week only underscored this danger, shattering snow records and overtopping levees across the state.
From Salon
The water rose rapidly before it overtopped the Sanmenxia dam in Henan province, sweeping away people who had gathered below for photographs, the Sanmenxia Municipal Emergency Response Bureau said in a statement.
From Seattle Times
“Hopefully the memory of what happened at Oroville is not lost on people’s minds,” he said, referencing the 2017 crisis in which high water levels nearly overtopped the massive Oroville Dam.
From Los Angeles Times
The projected risks of deep flooding “are primarily linked to overtopping of flood channels mostly constructed in the decades following World War II and are now undersized or inadequately maintained,” the study says.
From New York Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
