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low-water mark

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low-water mark
n
1. (Earth Sciences / Physical Geography) the level reached by seawater at low tide or by other stretches of water at their lowest level
2. the lowest point or level; nadir
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Noun1.low-water mark - an extreme state of adversity; the lowest point of anything
adversity, hard knocks, hardship - a state of misfortune or affliction; "debt-ridden farmers struggling with adversity"; "a life of hardship"
2.low-water mark - a line marking the lowest level reached
watermark, water line - a line marking the level reached by a body of water


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In moisture, however, it is otherwise; from December to May is the period of the rains, and during this time the river slowly rises until it attains a height of nearly forty feet above its low-water mark.
Seven miles to the north of Venice the banks of sand which nearer the city rise little above low-water mark attain by degrees a higher level, and knit themselves at last into fields of salt morass, raised here and there into shapeless mounds, and intercepted by narrow creeks of sea.
No other company was in the house than the landlord, his wife, and a grizzled male creature, the "Jack" of the little causeway, who was as slimy and smeary as if he had been low-water mark too.
 
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