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1. The runoff from melting snow.
2. A period or season when such runoff occurs: streams that flood during snowmelt.


(Physical Geography) water produced by the melting of snow



1. water from melting snow.
2. the amount of such water.
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Yet they won admiration from maturer judges than his school-fellows, and were indeed, remarkably clever, though destitute of the native warmth that might have made the snow melt beneath his hand.
"When the snow melts they'll sink in the Polish swamps.
Coupled with a fast thaw following large accumulated snow melt, over 1,000,000,000 acres of farmland were inundated.
Officials believe the flood was a result of the rapid snow melt and the heavy spring rain, which could get worse over time.The late season snow fall in areas where the ground was already moist added to the flooding.
The dead bodies are exposed following the snow melt towards the end of the climbing season, he said.
"This little-visited region in the far northeast of the country offers the kind of startlingly striking scenery that compels you togaze from the window without blinking, for fear of missing a moment of the majesty of the landscape or one of the astounding suspension bridges that cross the surging rivers filled with snow melt," she further writes.