unflood

English

Etymology

un- +‎ flood

Verb

unflood (third-person singular simple present unfloods, present participle unflooding, simple past and past participle unflooded)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To clear the liquid from a flooded area.
   • a. 1946, Damon Runyon, Blonde Mink:

     […] Beatrice is now really letting the salt water flow freely, although her best effort is in Woodlawn two days later when it looks as if we will have to send for a siphon to unflood the premises.

   • 2013, George Szanto, Bog Tender: Coming Home to Nature and Memory, page 191:

     And still I was diddling with the engine, fifteen, twenty, thirty, sixty pulls of the starting cord, fiddling with the choke, halfway, full choke, close choke, and flooding it, and waiting for it to unflood.