Aggrade (Verb)
Meaning
Build up to a level by depositing sediment.
Classification
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging.
Examples
- The heavy rainfall caused the river to aggrade its channel with massive amounts of sand and silt.
- Over time, the beach gradually began to aggrade as the waves deposited layers of pebbles and fine-grained sediment.
- The aggrading river delta blocked the river's flow, forcing residents to alter the landscape and redirect the water.
- The constant flow of sediment allowed the layers of the bottom to aggrade, slowly rising to the original ground level.
- As the tectonic plates colliding caused the orogeny to form, earth's crust started to aggrade steadily due to the constant accumulation of eroded sediments at its base.