flow
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(verb) cover or swamp with water |
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Related Words: flood |
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(noun) the act of flowing or streaming; continuous progression |
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Synonyms: stream |
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Related Words: flood, motion, move, movement, outpouring, overflow, release, spill, spillage |
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(verb) move or progress freely as if in a stream; "The crowd flowed out of the stadium" |
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Related Words: cockle, move, riffle, ripple, ruffle, sluice, transpirate, transpire, undulate |
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(verb) cause to flow; "The artist flowed the washes on the paper" |
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(verb) be abundantly present; "The champagne flowed at the wedding" |
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Related Words: be, exist |
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(noun) the motion characteristic of fluids (liquids or gases) |
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Synonyms: flowing |
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Related Words: airflow, backflow, backflowing, change of location, current, discharge, dribble, drip, ebb, emission, flood, flush, flux, fluxion, fountain, freshet, gush, jet, ooze, oozing, outpouring, overflow, overflowing, overspill, reflux, run, runoff, rush, seepage, spate, stream, surge, travel, trickle, upsurge |
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(noun) any uninterrupted stream or discharge |
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Related Words: action, activity, airstream, backwash, effluence, efflux, filling, flowage, inflow, influx, laminar flow, natural action, natural process, outflow, race, slipstream, streamline flow, turbulent flow, wash |
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(noun) the amount of fluid that flows in a given time |
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Synonyms: flow rate, rate of flow |
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Related Words: cardiac output, rate |
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(verb) undergo menstruation; "She started menstruating at the age of 11" |
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Synonyms: menstruate |
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Related Words: bleed, hemorrhage, shed blood |
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(verb) move along, of liquids; "Water flowed into the cave" |
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Synonyms: course, run |
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Related Words: circulate, drain, dribble, eddy, filter, flush, gurge, gush, gutter, jet, move, ooze, pour, purl, run down, run off, run out, seep, spill, stream, surge, swirl, tide, trickle, waste, well out, whirl, whirlpool |
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(noun) dominant course (suggestive of running water) of successive events or ideas: "two streams of development run through American history"; "stream of consciousness"; "the flow of thought"; "the current of history" |
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Synonyms: current, stream |
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Related Words: course, line |
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(noun) something that resembles a flowing stream in moving continuously; "a stream of people emptied from the terminal"; "the museum had planned carefully for the flow of visitors" |
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Synonyms: stream |
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Related Words: motion |
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(verb) fall or flow in a certain way; "This dress hangs well"; "Her long black hair flowed down her back" |
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Synonyms: fall, hang |
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(noun) the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause; "the women were sickly and subject to excessive menstruation"; "a woman does not take the gout unless her menses be stopped"--Hippocrates; "the semen begins to appear in males and to be emitted at the same time of life that the catamenia begin to flow in females"--Aristotle |
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Synonyms: catamenia, menses, menstruation, period |
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Related Words: discharge, emission, expelling, hypermenorrhea, menorrhagia, oligomenorrhea |
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