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Overtopped meaning
simple past and past participle of overtop
Example sentences (7)
Evacuations began before the storm hit and continued as lakes overtopped dams, including one in North Carolina that forms a lake featured in the movie Dirty Dancing.
The report states: “As some leachate had overtopped the side wall and affected the adjacent land, you will be scored a category 3 for this non compliance.
Waves overtopped the sea wall in the centre of the village and breached a former hotel and a building used by Royal Mail behind Golspie Pharmacy.
The North Carolina Pork Council on Tuesday afternoon that there’s only been one lagoon breach, but that three more lagoons have been damaged and nearly two dozen have been overtopped or inundated.
A fuse plug spillway is a low embankment designed to be overtopped and washed away in the event of a large flood.
The Bishop tuff is thousands of feet thick and is cut by the Owens River Gorge, formed during the Pleistocene when the caldera filled with water and overtopped its rim.
These dams can be overtopped at high tide and hold water at low tide.