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white water

noun

  1. frothy water, as in whitecaps and rapids.
  2. light-colored seawater over a shoal, sandy bottom, etc.


white water

noun

  1. a stretch of water with a broken foamy surface, as in rapids
  2. light-coloured sea water, esp over shoals or shallows


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Word History and Origins

Origin of white water1

First recorded in 1580–90

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Example Sentences

Monroe and he were about to go down some white water on a raft.

The privately owned area does not have trails in the canyon, but does offer similar white-water rafting trips.

“The white water almost sucked me over, and if it had sucked me over I would have been on the rocks,” Garrett said.

Outside in the night, the streets of his Long Beach, N.Y., neighborhood looked like "white-water rapids," he says.

The river is slow-moving here—not interesting for white-water aficionados, but perfect for family paddling.

The ponds were half covered with the white water-lily, and some other aquatic plants of the country.

In the present state of the river this "white water," as lumbermen call it, was dangerous.

And it is this same white water which gives rise to the phenomenon above referred to, locally known as “Bank Blink.”

The surface of the block is first whitened by a white water color, as Chinese white.

In a north-east gale the white water leaps above the summit of the Tynemouth cliffs.

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