floodwater

plural floodwaters · alternative flood water

1. countableuncountableThe water of a flood.

   As central California floodwater swept away their SUV Monday morning, 5-year-old Kyle Doan, now missing, encouraged his mother.

   2023 January 11, Ray Sanchez, “Missing 5-year-old boy was pulled from mother’s arms in California floodwater”, in CNN, archived from the original on 10 Mar 2023

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   European adventurers found themselves within a watery world, a tapestry of streams, channels, wetlands, lakes and lush riparian meadows enriched by floodwaters from the Mississippi River.

   2013 January 28, Nancy Langston, “The Fraught History of a Watery World”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 1, archived from the original on 22 Jan 2013, page 59

   South Yorkshire 2019: The track at Conisbrough is deluged by floodwater. Lines were shut and services were disrupted across Yorkshire and the East Midlands.

   2020 July 29, Andrew Roden, “ORR demands more action on weather resistance”, in Rail, page 21, photo caption