deflow

English

Etymology

de- + flow: compare Latin defluere.

Verb

deflow (third-person singular simple present deflows, present participle deflowing, simple past and past participle deflowed)

  1. (obsolete) To flow down.
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for deflow in
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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