high-water mark
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high-water mark
noun high-water marks
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A mark, such as a line of seaweed, showing the highest level reached by a body of water.
This imposing structure, which not only carries the single track branch line but also the gas main supplying the Forest of Dean area, cost £200,000 when it was built in 1879, and at its highest point is 70ft above the high-water mark.
Opposite: low-water mark
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The peak, apex or acme of something; the maximum level; the furthest or highest point.
The Gettysburg campaign was the high-water mark of the Confederacy's invasions of the North.
Opposite: low-water mark
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noun mark showing the highest level reached by a body of water
| Deutsch | Hochwassermarke |
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