Antonyms for reef
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Princeton's WordNet

1. reefnoun

   a submerged ridge of rock or coral near the surface of the water

2. Witwatersrand, Rand, Reefnoun

   a rocky region in the southern Transvaal in northeastern South Africa; contains rich gold deposits and coal and manganese

3. reefverb

   one of several strips across a sail that can be taken in or rolled up to lessen the area of the sail that is exposed to the wind

4. reefverb

   lower and bring partially inboard

   "reef the sailboat's mast"

5. reefverb

   roll up (a portion of a sail) in order to reduce its area

6. reefverb

   reduce (a sail) by taking in a reef

How to use reef in a sentence?

1. Tim McClanahan:

   Saving reefs will require combining local and global efforts, such as reducing local dependence on reef fish to maintain a reef's important functions while also reducing carbon emissions to keep warming below 1.5 degrees Celsius.

2. Collin Koh:

   The Balabac site allows for intelligence collection and staging of peacetime air and naval activities in the area, which can put Mischief Reef under closer scrutiny.

3. Jennifer Koss:

   Almost one and a half square miles of reef bleached last year and are now completely dead. we need to act locally and think globally to address these bleaching events. Locally produced threats to coral, such as pollution from the land and unsustainable fishing practices, stress the health of corals and decrease the likelihood that corals can either resist bleaching, or recover from it.

4. Terry Hughes:

   We saw record-breaking temperatures all along the length of the Great Barrier Reef, there wasn't a cool portion in the north, or a cool portion in the south this time around, the whole Barrier Reef was hot so the bleaching we have seen this year is the most extensive so far.

5. Vincent Van Gogh:

   It's the smaller galleries that feed the mid-tier galleries that feed the larger galleries, and we all have to be respectful of that process because otherwise it's like watching the Great Barrier Reef die, we're all part of a much larger ecosystem.

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