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Definition of Aggrading
1. aggrade [v] - See also: aggrade
Lexicographical Neighbors of Aggrading
Literary usage of Aggrading
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Explorations in Turkestan: With an Account of the Basin of Eastern Persia by Raphael Pumpelly, William Morris Davis, Ellsworth Huntington (1905)
"THE aggrading RIVERS OF THE PLAINS. The most notable feature of this district
was the absence of valleys. The rivers have channels in which their waters are ..."
2. Explorations in Turkestan: With an Account of the Basin of Eastern Persia by Raphael Pumpelly (1905)
"THE aggrading RIVERS OF THE PLAINS. The most notable feature of this district
was the absence of valleys. The rivers have channels in which their waters are ..."
3. My Reminiscences by Raphael Pumpelly (1918)
"The South Kurgan—Anau III—was founded during the aggrading of a later climatic
cycle, which reached its maximum near the end of the culture. ..."
4. New Physical Geography by Ralph Stockman Tarr (1903)
"What effect have they on their banks? State the several causes which influence
the rate of river erosion. Define degrading and aggrading rivers. ..."
5. The American Geologist: A Monthly Journal of Geology and Allied Sciences by Newton Horace Winchell (1902)
"But if, instead, they were subglacial streams, the aggrading of their beds must
have been in progress during their entire existence, or at least during all ..."
6. Ecology, Diversity and Sustainability of the Middle Rio Grande Basin edited by Deborah M. Finch, Joseph A. Tainter (1996)
"The Rio Grande above Elephant Butte Reservoir is aggrading. The cause of this
is, in part, the raising of effective local base level by delta building in ..."
7. Bulletin by Geological Society of America (1906)
"We may call the upper edge of this aggrading plain the grade- contour line of
alluvial shore. The mouth of the valley will always be at this shoreline and ..."
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