backwater
IPA: bˈækwɔtɝ
noun
- The water held back by a dam or other obstruction
- (idiomatic) A remote place; somewhere that remains unaffected by new events, progresses, ideas, etc.
- A rowing stroke in which the oar is pushed forward to stop the boat; see back water
- (paper industry) Water used in the papermaking process. Recycled to reduce usage of fresh water, and usually containing residual amounts of chemicals and fibres.
verb
- To row or paddle a backwater stroke.
- (idiomatic) To vacillate on a long-held position.
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Examples of "backwater" in Sentences
- The town was situated in the backwater.
- The country is the cultural backwater of the world.
- The road extends to the two Sonning Backwater Bridges.
- Azhi is the natural join of the sea with the backwater.
- It is also the starting point of the backwater waterways.
- The Yokums lived in the backwater hamlet of Dogpatch, Kentucky.
- The lake is also called the gateway to the backwaters of Kerala.
- The Band’s Visit – An Egyptian band gets lost in backwater Israel.
- Vermont was no longer a quiet place in the backwater of the country.
- Different branches of the backwaters of Vembanad surround the village.
- In the view of the government in Paris, Cambodia was a promising backwater.
- I'm from Kansas, what many would also call a backwater state, as was Bill Clinton being governor of Arkansas.
- The other thing that makes it seem like a bit of a backwater is that there were not many attractions to go to.
- Karachi is a huge port city, and an economic center of Pakistan, it’s not some mountain backwater where you can hide in the caves.
- Engineers expected the earthen levees at Krotz Springs to hold but are concerned about what they call backwater—water could travel farther south, then spread out and double back over lowlands, inundating about 240 homes here in the coming days.
- About 10 miles north of Vicksburg, contractors lined one side of what is known as a backwater levee with big sheets of plastic to keep it from eroding if floodwaters flow over it as feared - something that has never happened to the levee since it was built in the 1970s.
- Say what you will about Stalin (and personally, I say he was brutal, monomaniacal, and paranoid), but to accuse him, and his fellow Soviet leaders of turning “one of the leading scientific, cultural and industrial powers in the world” into a backwater is downright Orwellian in its dishonesty.
- The threat this time stems not so much from the river levees breaching but from smaller tributaries feeding into the Mississippi that will continue to overrun, causing what's known as "backwater flooding," says George Sills, a former longtime Army Corps river engineer and levee expert based in Vicksburg.