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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The process of filling up with earth; especially, the formation of land by alluvial deposits.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete The act of filling up with earth, or of forming land with alluvial earth.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete The act of
filling up withearth , or of formingland withalluvial earth.
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