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Synonyms for reflux

Grammar : Noun
Spell : ree-fluhks
Phonetic Transcription : ˈriˌflʌks

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Définition of reflux

Origin :
  • early 15c., "a flowing back (of the sea, etc.)," from Medieval Latin refluxus, from Latin re- "back, again" (see re-) + fluxus "a flowing" (see flux). Digestive sense is recorded from 1937.
  • As in ebb : noun regression; decline
Example sentences :
  • Flux and reflux, the fire and the water, the water and the fire!
  • Extract from : « Dreamers of the Ghetto » by I. Zangwill
  • An old word, signifying the reflux of the waves by the force of the wind.
  • Extract from : « The Sailor's Word-Book » by William Henry Smyth
  • From it and to it, in endless flux and reflux, the life blood goes.
  • Extract from : « Looking Backward » by Edward Bellamy
  • It tends to make and to break fortunes, by the flux and reflux of paper.
  • Extract from : « Thirty Years' View (Vol. I of 2) » by Thomas Hart Benton
  • At Kulnah,62 indications of flow and reflux of the tide were evident.
  • Extract from : « Recollections of Thirty-nine Years in the Army » by Charles Alexander Gordon
  • The reflux of the tide exposes some of the aquatic animals of the period.
  • Extract from : « The World Before the Deluge » by Louis Figuier
  • Still it is but the beginning, and there will be a reflux before the stream sets in.
  • Extract from : « The Impostor » by Harold Bindloss
  • The ebb and flow of these questionings is eternal, as the flux and reflux of the sea itself.
  • Extract from : « Toilers of the Sea » by Victor Hugo
  • Would the hawser reach across this flux and reflux of death?
  • Extract from : « Overland » by John William De Forest
  • We admit of these causes after the first cause, the motion of the flux and reflux, and of the sea from east to west.
  • Extract from : « Buffon's Natural History, Volume I (of II) » by Georges Louis Leclerc de Buffon

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