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indrifts

indrifts is the plural of indrift.

indrifts is the third-person singular simple present indicative of indrift.

Meaning of indrift

Noun

indrift (plural indrifts)

  1. The act of indrifting.
    • Thus often does the thunder-cloud, advancing slowly towards us, seem to be propelled (apparently against the wind), so as to induce us to thing ourselves safe from its approach; but this is a deception, the current blowing from us towards it being but an indrift towards the higher temperature of...1876, Josiah Crampton, The three heavens, page 38

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Questions about indrifts

What is indrifts the plural of?
Indrifts is the plural of indrift.

Words near indrifts in the dictionary

  1. indrid
  2. indrids
  3. indrift
  4. indrifted
  5. indrifting
  6. indrifts
  7. indriid
  8. indriids
  9. indris
  10. indrises
  11. indriven

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