Definition of riverbed
: the channel occupied by a river
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Those bars will be cut off below the limestone surface of the riverbed to prevent injury to recreational users of the free-flowing river, Triebenbach said.
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In response to a federal lawsuit filed in January a judge ordered county officials to find shelter for hundreds of people who were cleared out of an encampment along the Santa Ana riverbed last month.
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Learning and tradition provide the riverbed; creation and creator are the river.
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Carter is overseeing a lawsuit against the county from seven homeless plaintiffs over the action to clear the tent city on the Santa Ana riverbed.
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Carter is overseeing a lawsuit against the county from seven homeless plaintiffs over the action to clear the tent city on the Santa Ana riverbed.
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Beyond the riverbed discovery, Curiosity has found that a nearby area called Yellowknife Bay used to be a giant lake, that the region had large deposits of groundwater, and that these environments persisted for millions of years.
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Flooding has flushed 43 billion plastic pieces out to sea The Mersey River Basin near Manchester, U.K., is the most plastic polluted watershed in the world, with more than half a million plastic particles per square meter of riverbed.
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According to the Times-Union, the bridge's pilings were built on the riverbed instead of driven into the bedrock beneath the surface.
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First Known Use of riverbed
1781
RIVERBED Defined for English Language Learners
Definition of riverbed for English Language Learners
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: the ground at the bottom of a river
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