Meanings
- LateModernobsoleterareuncountableThat which is washed off.
1 more example
This interval has been greatly extended towards Hadley since the settlement of this country. Several considerable lots have been washed away from the Hadley shore within sixty or seventy years and tracts equally large have been added to the Hatfield shore. It cannot be wondered at that this process of alluvion and abluvion which has gone on ever since the deluge or perhaps more correctly ever since Connecticut river broke down the ancient mound between Mount Tom and Mount Holyoke should produce even greater changes than these.
1821, Timothy Dwight, Travels in New York and New England, volume II, page 57
Origin
- Late Latinabluvio
- Englishabluvion
From Late Latin abluvio. See abluent.
More words from Late Latin
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Ukraine те, що змивається, змивний
- те, що змивається (te, ščo zmyvajetʹsja)That which is washed off
- змивний (zmyvnyj)That which is washed off
- водорозчинний (vodorozčynnyj)That which is washed off
- тимчасовий (tymčasovyj)That which is washed off
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with abluvion
All rhymes →Cite this entry
abluvion. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/abluvion
“abluvion.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/abluvion. Accessed November 4, 2026.
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