river will exceed its banks

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• exceed — verb Etymology: Middle English exceden, from Middle French exceder, from Latin excedere, from ex + cedere to go Date: 14th century transitive verb 1. to extend outside of < the river will exceed its banks > 2. to be greater than or superior to 3 …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• river — river1 riverless, adj. riverlike, adj. /riv euhr/, n. 1. a natural stream of water of fairly large size flowing in a definite course or channel or series of diverging and converging channels. 2. a similar stream of something other than water: a… …   Universalium

• River — For other uses, see River (disambiguation). The Tigris River near Hasankeyf, in southeastern Turkey …   Wikipedia

• River Parrett — Geobox River name = River Parrett native name = other name = other name1 = image size = image caption = River Parrett near Burrowbridge etymology = The barge river from Latin paradie barse country = England country1 = state = Dorset state1 =… …   Wikipedia

• Kobuk River — The Kobuk River is approximately convert|280|mi|km|0|lk=on long, located in the Arctic region of northwestern Alaska in the United States. [USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). [http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnispublic/f?p=gnispq:3:::NO… …   Wikipedia

• HISTORICAL SURVEY: THE STATE AND ITS ANTECEDENTS (1880–2006) — Introduction It took the new Jewish nation about 70 years to emerge as the State of Israel. The immediate stimulus that initiated the modern return to Zion was the disappointment, in the last quarter of the 19th century, of the expectation that… …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

• Yangtze River — Chinese Chang Jiang or Ch ang Chiang River, China. Rising in the eastern Kunlun Mountains in western China, it flows southeast, continuing east across Yunnan province and then across the rest of south central China to the East China Sea near… …   Universalium

• Congo River — or Zaire River River, west central Africa. Rising in Zambia as the Chambeshi and flowing 2,900 mi (4,700 km) through the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the Atlantic Ocean, it is the second longest river in Africa. It flows through three… …   Universalium

• Ganges River — Hindi Ganga River, northern India and Bangladesh. Held sacred by followers of Hinduism, it is formed from five headstreams rising in Uttaranchal state. On its 1,560 mi (2,510 km) course, it flows southeast through the Indian states of Uttar… …   Universalium

• Guadalupe River (Texas) — Infobox River | river name = Guadalupe River caption = Map of the Guadalupe River and associated watershed origin = Kerr County, Texas, U.S.A mouth = San Antonio Bay basin countries = U.S.A length = 230 mi (370 km) elevation = 2200 ft (671 m)… …   Wikipedia

• Tigris-Euphrates river system — ▪ river system, Asia Introduction  great river system of Southwest Asia, comprising the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, which have their sources within 50 miles (80 km) of each other in eastern Turkey and travel southeast through northern Syria and… …   Universalium