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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. The State Department official:

    Ultimately no matter how much sand China piles on top of a submerged reef or shoal ... it is not enhancing its territorial claim. You can't build sovereignty, he (Kerry) will leave his Chinese interlocutors in absolutely no doubt that the United States remains committed to maintaining freedom of navigation and to exercise our legitimate rights as pertaining to over flight and movement on the high seas.

  2. Linda Stewart:

    The reason for Linda Stewart proposed bill is just to make sure Linda Stewart proposed bill is discourages the use of those two chemicals, i'm not doing this so everyone gets skin cancer. There are so many other sunscreens out there that are reef-safe.

  3. Ryan Pedley:

    It's another way to immerse our students in reef ecology, the kids don't actually have to visit Great Barrier Reef. They can do their part by breeding clownfish in captivity and donate them to the fish shops.

  4. Peter Gash:

    I have no doubt that they (UNESCO delegates) had a perception that the barrier reef was dead. That it was doomed, it was down, it was in a bad place. And that's not the case at all, it's my belief, and it's the belief of many people, that the barrier reef has turned the corner and it's slowly improving.

  5. 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.

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