Restrain A Flow Crossword Clue

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Updated: October 10, 2023

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	noun • a barrier constructed to contain the flow of water or to keep out the sea • a metric unit of length equal to ten meters • female parent of an animal especially domestic livestock verb • obstruct with, or as if with, a dam
	28%	8		Restrain the flow, as of a liquid
	verb • To stop the flow of. • To cease, as the flowing of blood. • To prop; to make stanch, or strong. • To extinguish; to quench, as fire or thirst.
	26%	9		Wall designed to restrain the flow of floodwaters
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New York Times30 Dec 1983	Down 22
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