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spillway
noun as in overflowing
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Fluctuations in the lake due to floods are controlled by an immense spillway dam built of concrete.
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The spillway is so arranged that as the level of the water in the lake rises the discharging capacity increases.
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The spillway, too, if enlarged by explosives, would make a nasty hole to build up.
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The spillway is a concrete-lined opening cut through a hill of rock near the center of the dam.
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Behind was the bubbling, leaping flow of the spillway itself, and Gatun Dam.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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