undrown
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Verb
[edit]undrown (third-person singular simple present undrowns, present participle undrowning, simple past and past participle undrowned)
- (rare, transitive) To remove the water from (something drowned or flooded); to unflood.
- 1956, Helen Marie Newell, The Hardhats, page 210:
- All available pumps were put into action to undrown the fifty-acre working area behind it.
- 1971, George Finiel Adams, Jerome Wyckoff, Landforms, page 143:
- Recent uplift of the Maine and Oregon coasts has not been enough to "undrown" the larger valleys; the shorelines are still submergent.