Definitions for refluent

refluent ref·lu·ent

Spelling: [ref-loo-uh nt, ruh-floo-]
IPA: /ˈrɛf lu ənt, rəˈflu-/

Refluent is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 181 anagrams from letters in refluent (eeflnrtu).

Definitions for refluent

adjective

  1. flowing back; ebbing, as the waters of a tide.

Origin of refluent

1690-1700; Latin refluent- (stem of refluēns), present participle of refluere to flow back. See re-, fluent

Examples for refluent

And he did live to behold the first swelling of the refluent wave.

There was an antagonistic force in exercise, so that when he had tried to hang near her he seemed standing in a refluent current.

All the material had been carried out to sea by the refluent wave.

There were many ambitious generals, ready to mount the crest of any refluent wave to sweep Napoleon to destruction.

Hardin wonders if any refluent political wave may throw him up to the senate or the governor's chair.

The invasion was beginning again, but with a refluent movement.

A chip cast ashore in a refluent eddy tells no tale of the force and swiftness of the current.

And the history of each year's bloom was an example of this refluent balance.

Little by little the refluent waves carried back portions of the crumbled mass, and deposited them in the neighboring depressions.

But one word—an old monosyllable of comfort—is borne on the refluent billow, "O my God!"

Word Value for refluent
Scrable

11

Words with friends

14

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