Definitions for refluxes

refluxes re·flux

Spelling: [ree-fluhks]
IPA: /ˈriˌflʌks/

Refluxes is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 170 anagrams from letters in refluxes (eeflrsux).

Definitions for refluxes

noun

  1. a flowing back; ebb.

Origin of refluxes

First recorded in 1400-50; late Middle English word from Medieval Latin word refluxus. See re-, flux

Examples for refluxes

Would the hawser reach across this flux and reflux of death?

An old word, signifying the reflux of the waves by the force of the wind.

At Kulnah,62 indications of flow and reflux of the tide were evident.

It tends to make and to break fortunes, by the flux and reflux of paper.

We admit of these causes after the first cause, the motion of the flux and reflux, and of the sea from east to west.

Still it is but the beginning, and there will be a reflux before the stream sets in.

Flux and reflux, the fire and the water, the water and the fire!

The ebb and flow of these questionings is eternal, as the flux and reflux of the sea itself.

The reflux of the tide exposes some of the aquatic animals of the period.

From it and to it, in endless flux and reflux, the life blood goes.

Word Value for refluxes
Scrable

16

Words with friends

18

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