undrown
verbEtymology From un- + drown.
1
Rare To remove the water from (something drowned or flooded); to unflood.
- All available pumps were put into action to undrown the fifty-acre working area behind it.1956, Helen Marie Newell, The Hardhats, page 210:
- Recent uplift of the Maine and Oregon coasts has not been enough to "undrown" the larger valleys; the shorelines are still submergent.1971, George Finiel Adams, Jerome Wyckoff, Landforms, page 143: