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rejuvenation

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rejuvenation

In earth science, the renewal of a river's powers of downward erosion. It may be caused by a fall in sea level or a rise in land level, by climate change, by changes in vegetation cover (deforestation), or by the increase in water flow that results when one river captures another (river capture).

Several river features are formed by rejuvenation. For example, as a river cuts down into its channel it will leave its old flood plain perched up on the valley side to form a river terrace. Meanders (bends in the river) become deeper and their sides steeper, forming incised meanders, and waterfalls and rapids become more common.
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The only course that seemed to him in any way satisfactory in this his hour of rejuvenation was to visit the bee farm, the hotbed of crime, and keep an eye on it.
Uneasy Money by Wodehouse, Pelham Grenville View in context
We learned, then, that Renaissance was not a man; that renaissance was a term used to signify what was at best but an imperfect rejuvenation of art.
The Innocents Abroad by Twain, Mark View in context
In most respects, or all, the Norman conquest accomplished precisely that racial rejuvenation of which, as we have seen, Anglo-Saxon England stood in need.
A History of English Literature by Fletcher, Robert Huntington View in context
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