WATERWAYS Synonyms

• official routes of communication

• a conduit that resembles a bridge but carries water over a valley

• (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 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

• a long narrow excavation in the earth

• any small natural waterway

• forsake

• throw away

• sever all ties with, usually unceremoniously or irresponsibly

• make an emergency landing on water

• crash or crash-land

• cut a trench in, as for drainage

• emptying something accomplished by allowing liquid to run out of it

• tube inserted into a body cavity (as during surgery) to remove unwanted material

• a pipe through which liquid is carried away

• a gradual depletion of energy or resources

• flow off gradually

• deplete of resources

• empty of liquid; drain the liquid from

• make weak

• 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

• 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 body of (usually fresh) water surrounded by land

• a purplish red pigment prepared from lac or cochineal

• any of numerous bright translucent organic pigments

• a large body of water constituting a principal part of the hydrosphere

• anything apparently limitless in quantity or volume

• a large or extra supply of something

• lake used to store water for community use; a lake (natural or artificial) used to store water and used as a source of water

• tank used for collecting and storing a liquid (as water or oil)

• anything (a person or animal or plant or substance) in which an infectious agent normally lives and multiplies

• a large natural stream of water (larger than a creek)

• a small stream

• a division of an ocean or a large body of salt water partially enclosed by land

• anything apparently limitless in quantity or volume

• turbulent water with swells of considerable size

• 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

• 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

• 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