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flows

verb , present tense third-person singular of flow

Synonyms and Antonyms of flows

1 to move in a stream

water was flowing over the dam at a tremendous rate

Synonyms of flows

pours, rolls, runs, streams

Words Related to flows

arises, disembogues, effuses, emanates, issues, springs

courses, races, rushes

fountains, gushes, spouts, spurts

deluges, engulfs, floods, inundates, overflows, overruns, swamps

cascades, dribbles, drips, gutters, riffles, ripples, sheets, trickles

flushes, washes out

Near Antonyms of flows

clots, coagulates, congeals, gels, hardens, sets

Antonyms of flows

2 to move or proceed smoothly and readily

as everyone relaxed, the conversation really started to flow

Synonyms of flows

bowls, breezes, brushes, coasts, cruises, drifts, glides, rolls, sails, skims, slides, slips, streams, sweeps, whisks

Words Related to flows

flies, races, rushes, speeds

Near Antonyms of flows

limps, lumbers, plods, stumbles, trudges

shambles, shuffles

stamps, stomps, stumps, tramps

Antonyms of flows

flounders, struggles

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