stream
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(verb) exude profusely; "She was streaming with sweat"; "His nose streamed blood" |
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Related Words: exudate, exude, ooze, ooze out, transude |
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(verb) flow freely and abundantly; "Tears streamed down her face" |
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Synonyms: well out |
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Related Words: course, flow, run, spin |
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(verb) to extend, wave or float outward, as if in the wind: "their manes streamed like stiff black pennants in the wind." |
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Related Words: be adrift, blow, drift, float |
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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, flow |
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Related Words: course, line |
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(noun) a natural body of running water flowing on or under the earth |
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Synonyms: watercourse |
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Related Words: body of water, branch, brook, creek, rill, river, rivulet, run, runnel, streamlet, tidal river, tidal stream, tidewater river, tidewater stream, water |
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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: flow |
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Related Words: motion |
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(noun) the act of flowing or streaming; continuous progression |
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Synonyms: flow |
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Related Words: flood, motion, move, movement, outpouring, overflow, release, spill, spillage |
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(noun) a steady flow (usually from natural causes); "the raft floated downstream on the current"; "he felt a stream of air" |
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Synonyms: current |
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Related Words: eddy, flow, flowing, maelstrom, ocean current, rip current, riptide, tidal current, tidal flow, torrent, twist, undercurrent, undertide, violent stream, vortex, whirlpool |
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(verb) move in large numbers; "people were pouring out of the theater" |
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Synonyms: pour, swarm |
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Related Words: crowd, crowd together, draw together, pour out, spill out, spill over |
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(verb) rain heavily; "Put on your rain coat--it's pouring outside!" |
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Synonyms: pelt, pour, rain buckets, rain cats and dogs |
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Related Words: rain, rain down, sheet, sluice, sluice down |
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