flow
/ˈfloʊ/ verb B1- To move as a fluid from one position to another. · Rivers flow from springs and lakes.· Tears flow from the eyes.
- To proceed; to issue forth; to emanate. · Wealth flows from industry and economy.
- To move or match smoothly, gracefully, or continuously. · The writing is grammatically correct, but it just doesn't flow.
- To have or be in abundance; to abound, so as to run or flow over.
- To hang loosely and wave. · a flowing mantle· flowing locks
- To rise, as the tide; opposed to ebb. · The tide flows twice in twenty-four hours.
- To arrange (text in a wordprocessor, etc.) so that it wraps neatly into a designated space; to reflow.
- To allow (a liquid) to flow.
He/she/it flows · Past flowed · Past participle flowed · -ing form flowing
Verb forms
- Base form
- flow
- He/she/it
- flows
- Past
- flowed
- Past participle
- flowed
- -ing form
- flowing
Phrasal verbs and expressions
From the library
While flowing fast away, leaves love behind.
Diana and Ruby and I are to be in it, all draped in white with flowing hair.
The roadway was blocked with the immense stream of commerce flowing in a double tide inward and outward, while the footpaths were black with the hurrying swarm of pedestrians.
Still we find the flowing brooks
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