Definition of "leveeing" []

• Present participle of levee. (verb)

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• "Mr. SHEARER: Yes, which is an indirect result of the leveeing of the river."
• "Mr. SHEARER: Well, no, casinos aren't the problem that hurt the wetlands, the building of thousands of miles of canals and pipelines to get oil from the Gulf of Mexico to the mainland and the leveeing of the Mississippi River, which used to flood every year and deposit sediment to rebuild and replenish the wetlands."
• "Thanks to the leveeing of the Mississippi River, the normal deltaic cycle of spring flooding and silt deposition abruptly ended in the 19th century, and the entire region began to sink and erode."