Word: waterfloods
Part of speech: Verb
Syllables: wa
ter
floods
Definition: Third-person singular of waterflood. To pump water into the ground around an oil well nearing depletion in order to loosen and force out additional oil.
Morphemes:
Affix: water
Language: en
PoS: Verb
Meaning: To wet or supply with water; to moisten; to overflow with water; to irrigate.
Affix: flood
Language: en
PoS: Noun
Meaning: Water as opposed to land.
Affix: -s
Language: en
PoS: Suffix
Meaning: Used to form the third-person singular indicative present tense of verbs.
Etymology Compounds: Affix: -es
Language: enm
Decoded: -es
Meaning: third person singular ending of verbs