DEWATERINGS Antonyms

• an overwhelming number or amount

• a heavy rain

• the rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land

• fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid

• charge someone with too many tasks

• fill or cover completely, usually with water

• a technique used in behavior therapy; client is flooded with experiences of a particular kind until becoming either averse to them or numbed to them

• sinking until covered completely with water

• (astronomy) the disappearance of a celestial body prior to an eclipse

• complete attention; intense mental effort

• a form of baptism in which part or all of a person's body is submerged

• the act of wetting something by submerging it

• the rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land

• an overwhelming number or amount

• the process of totally saturating something with a substance

• the act of soaking thoroughly with a liquid

• a condition in which a quantity no longer responds to some external influence

• chromatic purity: freedom from dilution with white and hence vivid in hue

• the process of becoming softened and saturated as a consequence of being immersed in water (or other liquid)

• the act of making something completely wet

• washing something by allowing it to soak

• extremely wet

• sinking until covered completely with water

• cover completely or make imperceptible

• get rid of as if by submerging

• die from being submerged in water, getting water into the lungs, and asphyxiating

• kill by submerging in water

• be covered with or submerged in a liquid

• be in danger of dying from submersion in a liquid and asphyxiation

• low land that is seasonally flooded; has more woody plants than a marsh and better drainage than a bog

• a situation fraught with difficulties and imponderables

• drench or submerge or be drenched or submerged

• fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid

• To saturate with water.