Refluent

Quick meaning: Refluent is an adjective meaning (now literary) Flowing back.

Meaning

(now literary) Flowing back.

Example Sentences

now floods back refluent like a tide, the red, thick stream of life again

[…] let them cast it [my soul] downe Where refluent Oceanus doth crowne His curled head;

When the muscles of the heart cease to act, the refluent blood again distends or elongates them;

[…] in haste the refluent ocean Fled away from the shore, and left the line of the sand-beach Covered with waifs of the tide, with kelp and the slippery sea-weed.

Synonyms for refluent

Depending on context, synonyms include ebbing.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include retrograde, revertive, recessive, revenant, retrose, reflorescent.

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