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Flowing

of Flow

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Smooth 84% connected

Having an even surface, or a surface so even that no roughness or points can be perceived by the touch; not rough; as, smooth glass; smooth porcelain.

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Smooth 84% connected

Having an even surface, or a surface so even that no roughness or points can be perceived by the touch; not rough; as, smooth glass; smooth porcelain.

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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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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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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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Jet 76% connected

Same as 2d Get.

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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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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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Reflux 76% connected

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

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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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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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Broader term 1

Travel 76% connected

To labor; to travail.

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Derivationally related 2

Feed 74% connected

of Fee

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Feed 74% connected

of Fee

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Synonym 3

Aerodynamic 92% connected

Pertaining to the force of air in motion.

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Flow 92% connected

imp. sing. of Fly, v. i.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Sleek 92% connected

Having an even, smooth surface; smooth; hence, glossy; as, sleek hair.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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