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Flow

imp. sing. of Fly, v. i.

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Broader term 24

Action 76% connected

A process or condition of acting or moving, as opposed to rest; the doing of something; exertion of power or force, as when one body acts on another;…

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Activity 76% connected

The state or quality of being active; nimbleness; agility; vigorous action or operation; energy; active force; as, an increasing variety of human act…

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Be 76% connected

To exist actually, or in the world of fact; to have ex/stence.

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Bleed 76% connected

To emit blood; to lose blood; to run with blood, by whatever means; as, the arm bleeds; the wound bled freely; to bleed at the nose.

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Cause 76% connected

That which produces or effects a result; that from which anything proceeds, and without which it would not exist.

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Course 76% connected

The act of moving from one point to another; progress; passage.

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Discharge 76% connected

To relieve of a charge, load, or burden; to empty of a load or cargo; to unburden; to unload; as, to discharge a vessel.

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Emission 76% connected

The act of sending or throwing out; the act of sending forth or putting into circulation; issue; as, the emission of light from the sun; the emission…

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Exist 76% connected

To be as a fact and not as a mode; to have an actual or real being, whether material or spiritual.

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Expelling 76% connected

of Expel

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Flood 76% connected

A great flow of water; a body of moving water; the flowing stream, as of a river; especially, a body of water, rising, swelling, and overflowing land…

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Get 76% connected

Jet, the mineral.

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Go 76% connected

Gone.

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have 76% connected

of Have

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Hemorrhage 76% connected

Any discharge of blood from the blood vessels.

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Induce 76% connected

To lead in; to introduce.

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Line 76% connected

Flax; linen.

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Make 76% connected

A companion; a mate; often, a husband or a wife.

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Motion 76% connected

The act, process, or state of changing place or position; movement; the passing of a body from one place or position to another, whether voluntary or…

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Move 76% connected

To cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set in motion; to carry, convey, draw, or push from one place to another; to impel; to stir; as…

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Movement 76% connected

The act of moving; change of place or posture; transference, by any means, from one situation to another; natural or appropriate motion; progress; ad…

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Rate 76% connected

To chide with vehemence; to scold; to censure violently.

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Stimulate 76% connected

To excite as if with a goad; to excite, rouse, or animate, to action or more vigorous exertion by some pungent motive or by persuasion; as, to stimul…

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Travel 76% connected

To labor; to travail.

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Narrower term 39

Backwash 76% connected

To clean the oil from (wood) after combing.

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Current 76% connected

Running or moving rapidly.

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Discharge 76% connected

To relieve of a charge, load, or burden; to empty of a load or cargo; to unburden; to unload; as, to discharge a vessel.

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Dribble 76% connected

To fall in drops or small drops, or in a quick succession of drops; as, water dribbles from the eaves.

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Drip 76% connected

To fall in drops; as, water drips from the eaves.

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Dripping 76% connected

of Drip

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Ebb 76% connected

The European bunting.

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Effluence 76% connected

A flowing out, or emanation.

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Efflux 76% connected

The act or process of flowing out, or issuing forth; effusion; outflow; as, the efflux of matter from an ulcer; the efflux of men's piety.

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Emission 76% connected

The act of sending or throwing out; the act of sending forth or putting into circulation; issue; as, the emission of light from the sun; the emission…

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Filling 76% connected

of Fill

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Flood 76% connected

A great flow of water; a body of moving water; the flowing stream, as of a river; especially, a body of water, rising, swelling, and overflowing land…

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Flowage 76% connected

An overflowing with water; also, the water which thus overflows.

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Flush 76% connected

To flow and spread suddenly; to rush; as, blood flushes into the face.

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Flux 76% connected

The act of flowing; a continuous moving on or passing by, as of a flowing stream; constant succession; change.

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Fluxion 76% connected

The act of flowing.

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Fountain 76% connected

A spring of water issuing from the earth.

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Freshet 76% connected

A stream of fresh water.

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Gush 76% connected

To issue with violence and rapidity, as a fluid; to rush forth as a fluid from confinement; to flow copiously.

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Inflow 76% connected

To flow in.

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Influx 76% connected

The act of flowing in; as, an influx of light.

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Jet 76% connected

Same as 2d Get.

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Menorrhagia 76% connected

Profuse menstruation.

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Ooze 76% connected

Soft mud or slime; earth so wet as to flow gently, or easily yield to pressure.

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Oozing 76% connected

of Ooze

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Outflow 76% connected

A flowing out; efflux.

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Overflow 76% connected

To flow over; to cover woth, or as with, water or other fluid; to spread over; to inundate; to overwhelm.

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Race 76% connected

To raze.

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Reflux 76% connected

Returning, or flowing back; reflex; as, reflux action.

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Release 76% connected

To lease again; to grant a new lease of; to let back.

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Run 76% connected

of Run

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Rush 76% connected

A name given to many aquatic or marsh-growing endogenous plants with soft, slender stems, as the species of Juncus and Scirpus.

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Seepage 76% connected

Alt. of Sipage

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Spate 76% connected

A river flood; an overflow or inundation.

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Spill 76% connected

A bit of wood split off; a splinter.

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Stream 76% connected

A current of water or other fluid; a liquid flowing continuously in a line or course, either on the earth, as a river, brook, etc., or from a vessel,…

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Surge 76% connected

A spring; a fountain.

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Trickle 76% connected

To flow in a small, gentle stream; to run in drops.

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Wash 76% connected

To cleanse by ablution, or dipping or rubbing in water; to apply water or other liquid to for the purpose of cleansing; to scrub with water, etc., or…

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Manner of action 31

Circulate 76% connected

To move in a circle or circuitously; to move round and return to the same point; as, the blood circulates in the body.

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Cockle 76% connected

A bivalve mollusk, with radiating ribs, of the genus Cardium, especially C. edule, used in Europe for food; -- sometimes applied to similar shells of…

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Drain 76% connected

To draw off by degrees; to cause to flow gradually out or off; hence, to cause the exhaustion of.

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Dribble 76% connected

To fall in drops or small drops, or in a quick succession of drops; as, water dribbles from the eaves.

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Eddy 76% connected

A current of air or water running back, or in a direction contrary to the main current.

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Filter 76% connected

Any porous substance, as cloth, paper, sand, or charcoal, through which water or other liquid may passed to cleanse it from the solid or impure matte…

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Flush 76% connected

To flow and spread suddenly; to rush; as, blood flushes into the face.

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Gush 76% connected

To issue with violence and rapidity, as a fluid; to rush forth as a fluid from confinement; to flow copiously.

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Gutter 76% connected

A channel at the eaves of a roof for conveying away the rain; an eaves channel; an eaves trough.

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Jet 76% connected

Same as 2d Get.

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Lap 76% connected

The loose part of a coat; the lower part of a garment that plays loosely; a skirt; an apron.

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Lave 76% connected

To wash; to bathe; as, to lave a bruise.

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Ooze 76% connected

Soft mud or slime; earth so wet as to flow gently, or easily yield to pressure.

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Pour 76% connected

Poor.

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Purl 76% connected

To decorate with fringe or embroidery.

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Riffle 76% connected

A trough or sluice having cleats, grooves, or steps across the bottom for holding quicksilver and catching particles of gold when auriferous earth is…

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Ripple 76% connected

An implement, with teeth like those of a comb, for removing the seeds and seed vessels from flax, broom corn, etc.

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Ruffle 76% connected

To make into a ruff; to draw or contract into puckers, plaits, or folds; to wrinkle.

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Seep 76% connected

Alt. of Sipe

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Spill 76% connected

A bit of wood split off; a splinter.

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Stream 76% connected

A current of water or other fluid; a liquid flowing continuously in a line or course, either on the earth, as a river, brook, etc., or from a vessel,…

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Surge 76% connected

A spring; a fountain.

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Swirl 76% connected

To whirl, or cause to whirl, as in an eddy.

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Tide 76% connected

Time; period; season.

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Transpire 76% connected

To pass off in the form of vapor or insensible perspiration; to exhale.

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Trickle 76% connected

To flow in a small, gentle stream; to run in drops.

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Undulate 76% connected

Same as Undulated.

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Wash 76% connected

To cleanse by ablution, or dipping or rubbing in water; to apply water or other liquid to for the purpose of cleansing; to scrub with water, etc., or…

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Waste 76% connected

Desolate; devastated; stripped; bare; hence, dreary; dismal; gloomy; cheerless.

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Whirl 76% connected

To turn round rapidly; to cause to rotate with velocity; to make to revolve.

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Whirlpool 76% connected

An eddy or vortex of water; a place in a body of water where the water moves round in a circle so as to produce a depression or cavity in the center,…

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Catamenia 74% connected

The monthly courses of women; menstrual discharges; menses.

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Catamenia 74% connected

The monthly courses of women; menstrual discharges; menses.

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Feed 74% connected

of Fee

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Feed 74% connected

of Fee

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Flowage 74% connected

An overflowing with water; also, the water which thus overflows.

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Flowage 74% connected

An overflowing with water; also, the water which thus overflows.

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Hang 74% connected

To suspend; to fasten to some elevated point without support from below; -- often used with up or out; as, to hang a coat on a hook; to hang up a sig…

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Hang 74% connected

To suspend; to fasten to some elevated point without support from below; -- often used with up or out; as, to hang a coat on a hook; to hang up a sig…

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Stream 74% connected

A current of water or other fluid; a liquid flowing continuously in a line or course, either on the earth, as a river, brook, etc., or from a vessel,…

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Stream 74% connected

A current of water or other fluid; a liquid flowing continuously in a line or course, either on the earth, as a river, brook, etc., or from a vessel,…

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Causes 3

Course 72% connected

The act of moving from one point to another; progress; passage.

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Feed 72% connected

of Fee

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Run 72% connected

of Run

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Entails 1

Ovulate 72% connected

Containing an ovule or ovules.

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Synonym 15

Catamenia 92% connected

The monthly courses of women; menstrual discharges; menses.

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Course 92% connected

The act of moving from one point to another; progress; passage.

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Current 92% connected

Running or moving rapidly.

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Fall 92% connected

To Descend, either suddenly or gradually; particularly, to descend by the force of gravity; to drop; to sink; as, the apple falls; the tide falls; th…

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Feed 92% connected

of Fee

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Flowing 92% connected

of Flow

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Flux 92% connected

The act of flowing; a continuous moving on or passing by, as of a flowing stream; constant succession; change.

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Hang 92% connected

To suspend; to fasten to some elevated point without support from below; -- often used with up or out; as, to hang a coat on a hook; to hang up a sig…

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Menses 92% connected

The catamenial or menstrual discharge, a periodic flow of blood or bloody fluid from the uterus or female generative organs.

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Menstruate 92% connected

Menstruous.

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Menstruation 92% connected

The discharge of the menses; also, the state or the period of menstruating.

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Menstruum 92% connected

Any substance which dissolves a solid body; a solvent.

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Period 92% connected

A portion of time as limited and determined by some recurring phenomenon, as by the completion of a revolution of one of the heavenly bodies; a divis…

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Run 92% connected

of Run

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Stream 92% connected

A current of water or other fluid; a liquid flowing continuously in a line or course, either on the earth, as a river, brook, etc., or from a vessel,…

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