See Also: flooded(medicine)
permanently flooded(medicine)

undercover (iou) and flooded (medicine)


undercover (iou)



undercover adjective & noun. M19.
[from UNDER- + COVER noun1.]
A. adjective.
Situated or occurring under cover; sheltered. M19.
News Chronicle A good fun-fair and some under-cover amusements.
fig. Operating or conducted in secret within a community or organization, esp. for the purposes of investigation or espionage; surreptitious, covert. E20.
N. Mailer When a patrolman, Nielsen did some under-cover work in narcotics. J. Aiken She was conducting an undercover romance.
b. noun. An undercover agent. slang. M20.

flooded (medicine)


flooded


A condition in which the soil surface is temporarily covered with flowing water from any source, such as streams overflowing their banks, runoff from adjacent or surrounding slopes, inflow from high tides or any combination of sources.