RIVER Synonyms

• a swampy arm or slow-moving outlet of a lake (term used mainly in Mississippi and Louisiana)

• a beckoning gesture

• a loop in a rope

• a bend or curve (especially in a coastline)

• a broad bay formed by an indentation in the shoreline

• the middle part of a slack rope (as distinguished from its ends)

• fasten with a bight

• a natural stream of water smaller than a river (and often a tributary of a river)

• put up with something or somebody unpleasant

• pain that feels hot as if it were on fire

• an injury caused by exposure to heat or chemicals or radiation

• a place or area that has been burned (especially on a person's body)

• damage inflicted by fire

• destroy by fire

• shine intensely, as if with heat

• undergo combustion

• cause a sharp or stinging pain or discomfort

• cause to burn or combust

• feel strong emotion, especially anger or passion

• cause to undergo combustion

• execute by tying to a stake and setting alight

• spend (significant amounts of money)

• feel hot or painful

• burn, sear, or freeze (tissue) using a hot iron or electric current or a caustic agent

• get a sunburn by overexposure to the sun

• create by duplicating data

• use up (energy)

• damage by burning with heat, fire, or radiation

• (astronomy) an indistinct surface feature of Mars once thought to be a system of channels; they are now believed to be an optical illusion

• a bodily passage or tube lined with epithelial cells and conveying a secretion or other substance

• long and narrow strip of water made for boats or for irrigation

• provide (a city) with a canal

• a path over which electrical signals can pass

• a passage for water (or other fluids) to flow through

• a long narrow furrow cut either by a natural process (such as erosion) or by a tool (as e.g. a groove in a phonograph record)

• a deep and relatively narrow body of water (as in a river or a harbor or a strait linking two larger bodies) that allows the best passage for vessels

• (often plural) a means of communication or access

• a bodily passage or tube lined with epithelial cells and conveying a secretion or other substance

• a television station and its programs

• a way of selling a company's product either directly or via distributors

• transmit or serve as the medium for transmission

• direct the flow of

• send from one person or place to another

• a branch that flows into the main stream

• flowing together

• a natural stream of water smaller than a river (and often a tributary of a river)

• any member of the Creek Confederacy (especially the Muskogee) formerly living in Georgia and Alabama but now chiefly in Oklahoma

• the wide part of a river where it nears the sea; fresh and salt water mix

• a long narrow inlet of the sea between steep cliffs; common in Norway

• a British imperial capacity unit (liquid or dry) equal to 5 fluid ounces or 142.066 cubic centimeters

• a United States liquid unit equal to 4 fluid ounces

• any of the radiating leaflike spore-producing structures on the underside of the cap of a mushroom or similar fungus

• respiratory organ of aquatic animals that breathe oxygen dissolved in water

• an arm off of a larger body of water (often between rocky headlands)

• an opening through which fluid is admitted to a tube or container

• a body of water cut off from a larger body by a reef of sand or coral

• a small stream

• a small stream

• a natural body of running water flowing on or under the earth

• dominant course (suggestive of running water) of successive events or ideas

• the act of flowing or streaming; continuous progression

• something that resembles a flowing stream in moving continuously

• a steady flow of a fluid (usually from natural causes)

• to extend, wave or float outward, as if in the wind

• exude profusely

• move in large numbers

• rain heavily

• flow freely and abundantly

• a branch that flows into the main stream

• (of a stream) flowing into a larger stream

• paying tribute

• tending to bring about; being partly responsible for

• natural or artificial channel through which water flows

• a natural body of running water flowing on or under the earth

• a conduit through which water flows