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单词 atterration
释义

atterrationn.

Etymology: noun of action < atterrate v.: see -ation suffix.
Obsolete.
The action of filling up with earth; the washing up of alluvial soil.
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1686 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Staffs. iii. 113 All valleys rise by atterration i.e. by Earth continually brought down from the tops of mountains by rains and Snows.
1713 W. Derham Physico-theol. ii. v. 53 No accidental Currents and Atterrations of the Waters themselves..could ever have made or found so long and commodious Declivities and Channels.
1758 E. M. da Costa in Philos. Trans. 1757 (Royal Soc.) 50 235 Producible by local deluges, atterrations.
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