cascade
/kæsˈkeɪd/ verb C2- To fall as a waterfall or series of small waterfalls.
- To arrange in a stepped series like a waterfall.
- To occur as a causal sequence.
- To pass (something) down through a chain or system in a flow or series of movements.
He/she/it cascades · Past cascaded · Past participle cascaded · -ing form cascading
Verb forms
- Base form
- cascade
- He/she/it
- cascades
- Past
- cascaded
- Past participle
- cascaded
- -ing form
- cascading
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Rachel Lynde lived just where the Avonlea main road dipped down into a little hollow, fringed with alders and ladies’ eardrops and traversed by a brook that had its source away back in the woods of the old Cuthbert place; it was reputed to be an intricate, headlong brook in its earlier course through those woods, with dark secrets of pool and cascade; but by the time it reached Lynde’s Hollow it was a quiet, well-conducted little stream, for not even a brook could run past Mrs.
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