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Another word for river

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Noun

  1. Flowing water

  2. Anything likened to a river, sense 1

      1. The act, action, or result of pouring out or producing:
      1. To increase in size or volume as a result of internal pressure; expand.
      2. To increase in force, size, number, or degree:
      3. To grow in loudness or intensity:
      1. To move freely back and forth or up and down in the air, as branches in the wind.
      2. To make a signal with an up-and-down or back-and-forth movement of the hand or an object held in the hand:
      3. To have an undulating or wavy form; curve or curl:
    See also:

    plenty

    flood

Idioms:

    sell-down-the-river

    2. up-the-river

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Sentence Examples

  • Everything west of the river was blank.

  • It was on these byways that Dean opted to travel, rolling along the river with the down of cottonwoods filling the air like a winter snowstorm, past the occasional farm house, fields, and ever-present vista of mountains wrapping around him.

  • He continued to trudge forward, leaving the river and crowds behind.

  • Everything west of the river is fine.

  • I have seen our river, when, the landscape being covered with snow, both water and ice were almost as green as grass.

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