• Waterflood

    Full definition of waterflood

    Noun

    waterflood

    (plural waterfloods)
    1. An inundation of water.
    2. An instance of waterflooding.

    Verb

    1. To pump water into the ground around an oil well nearing depletion in order to loosen and force out additional oilWe will waterflood the well in order to obtain the remaining oil.

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