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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | burst of activity |
| Synonyms: | access, commotion, discharge, eruption, explosion, fit, jet, outburst, rush, spate, spritz, squirt, stream, surge |
| Antonyms: | continuity |
| Main Entry: | squirt |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | squeeze out liquid |
| Synonyms: | eject, emit, flow, jet, pour, spatter, spit, splash, splur, spray, sprinkle, spritz, spurt, stream, surge |
| Main Entry: | streak |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | vein, line; small part |
| Synonyms: | band, bar, beam, dash, element, hint, intimation, layer, ray, ridge, rule, shade, slash, smear, strain, stream, strip, stripe, stroke, suggestion, suspicion, touch, trace |
| Main Entry: | surge |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | rush, usually in liquid form |
| Synonyms: | arise, billow, climb, deluge, eddy, flow, grow, gush, heave, mount, pour, ripple, rise, roll, sluice, stream, swell, swirl, tower, undulate, well forth |
| Main Entry: | swarm |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | move forward as a group |
| Synonyms: | abound, be alive, be numerous, cluster, congregate, crawl, crowd, flock, flow, gather, gather like bees, jam, mass, mob, move in a crowd, overrun, pullulate, rush together, stream, teem, throng |
| Antonyms: | retreat |
| Main Entry: | tide |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | flow, current |
| Synonyms: | course, direction, drag, drift, ebb, eddy, flood, flux, movement, race, run, rush, sluice, spate, stream, tendency, torrent, trend, undercurrent, undertow, vortex, wave, whirlpool |
| Main Entry: | torrent |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | heavy flow |
| Synonyms: | cascade, cataclysm, cataract, cloudburst, deluge, downpour, effusion, flood, flooding, flux, gush, inundation, niagara, outburst, overflow, pour, rush, shower, spate, stream, tide, waterfall |
| Antonyms: | drip |
| Main Entry: | trail |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | path, track |
| Synonyms: | aisle, beaten track, byway, footpath, footprints, footsteps, groove*, mark, marks, pathway, road, route, rut, scent, spoor, stream, stroll, tail, trace, train, wake, way |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | trail |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | lag behind, follow |
| Synonyms: | bedog, bring up the rear, chase, dally, dangle, dawdle, delay, dog*, drag, draggle, draw, droop, drop back, extend, fall back, fall behind, falter, flag, follow a scent, halt, hang, hang back, hang down, haul, hunt, lag, linger, loiter, nose out, plod, poke, poke along, procrastinate, pull, pursue, shadow, shag, spook, spoor, stalk, straggle, stream, string along, tag along, tail, take out after, tarry, tow, trace, track, traipse, trudge |
| Antonyms: | lead |
* = informal/non-formal usage
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