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Disappearing lake
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dead sea
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n. A lake in the Middle East, noted for high salinity and for its banks being the lowest point on Earth.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-13c., from dead (adj.) + sea ; its water is 26 percent salt (as opposed to 3 or 4 percent in most oceans) and supports practically no life. In the Bible it was the "Salt Sea" (Hebrew yam hammelah ), also "Sea of the Plain" and "East Sea." In Arabic ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
The Dead Sea (, , "Sea of Salt", also , , "The Sea of Death", and ), also called the Salt Sea , is a salt lake bordered by Jordan to the east and Israel and Palestine to the west. Its surface and shores are below sea level , Earth's lowest elevation on ...
Usage examples of dead sea.
Spots spiraled in Jherek's gaze when he released the dead sea devil.
He kicked against the dead sea devil, pushing himself toward the surface.
There's bad fighting in Israel too, something to do with the arm of the Mediterranean that's filling up the Dead Sea, they blame it on one another.
Michener's The Boers and Bishop Joshua Marlin's Dead Sea, Living Faith had places of honor in a storefront display.
The terrible chill of the water during the night attack had been dissipated, but here and there dead sea things floated, being torn and devoured by hunters of the waves.
When this bar is gradually increased by storms, tides, or currents, or there is a subsidence of the waters, so that it reaches to the surface, that which was at first but an inclination in the shore in which a thought was harbored becomes an individual lake, cut off from the ocean, wherein the thought secures its own conditions-changes, perhaps, from salt to fresh, becomes a sweet sea, dead sea, or a marsh.