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conflow

UK/kənˈfləʊ/US/kənˈfloʊ/

conflow verb: to flow together into one stream, to converge.

Verb

conflow (third-person singular simple present conflows, present participle conflowing, simple past and past participle conflowed)

  1. to flow together into one stream, to converge
    • The morrow next ensuing he departed from thence by the very edge of the river bankes, where the streame was big by occasion of other brookes conflowing thither on every side, marching in warlike sort with his forces armed and weaponed; and there he tooke up his station, and abode under tents: where...1609, Ammianus Marcellinus, trans. Philemon Holland, The Roman historie containing such acts and occurrents as passed under Constantius, Iulianus, Iovianus, Valentinianus, and Valens, emperours, book...
    • Crossed, soon after leaving camp, two small streams, then came to the Lukoke river, which, conflowing with the Meruzi, forms the northern Malagarazi.1878, Henry Morton Stanley, Through the Dark Continent: Or, The Sources of the Nile Around the Great Lakes of Equatorial Africa, and Down the Livingstone River to the Atlantic Ocean, volume 2, page...

Forms of conflow

third-person singular presentconflows
present participleconflowing
past participleconflowed
pastconflowed

Origin of conflow

From con- + flow. Calque of Latin cōnfluō, apparently coined by Philemon Holland in his translations of Suetonius and Ammianus Marcellinus.

Words that rhyme with conflow

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Questions about conflow

What does conflow mean?
Conflow means to flow together into one stream, to converge.
What part of speech is conflow?
Conflow is a verb.
How do you pronounce conflow?
Conflow is pronounced /kənˈfloʊ/ (US).
What is the past tense of conflow?
The past tense of conflow is conflowed.

Words near conflow in the dictionary

  1. conflictually
  2. confloption
  3. confloptions
  4. conflorescence
  5. conflorescences
  6. conflow
  7. conflowed
  8. conflowing
  9. conflows
  10. confluence
  11. confluence of sinuses

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