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Noun
  • the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause
    • the women were sickly and subject to excessive menstruation
    • a woman does not take the gout unless her menses be stopped--Hippocrates
    • the semen begins to appear in males and to be emitted at the same time of life that the catamenia begin to flow in females--Aristotle
  • dominant course (suggestive of running water) of successive events or ideas
    • two streams of development run through American history
    • stream of consciousness
    • the flow of thought
    • the current of history
  • something that resembles a flowing stream in moving continuously
    • a stream of people emptied from the terminal
    • the museum had planned carefully for the flow of visitors
  • any uninterrupted stream or discharge
  • the act of flowing or streaming; continuous progression
  • the amount of fluid that flows in a given time
  • the motion characteristic of fluids (liquids or gases)
Verb
  • undergo menstruation
    • She started menstruating at the age of 11
  • cover or swamp with water
  • fall or flow in a certain way
    • This dress hangs well
    • Her long black hair flowed down her back
  • be abundantly present
    • The champagne flowed at the wedding
  • cause to flow
    • The artist flowed the washes on the paper
  • move along, of liquids
    • Water flowed into the cave
    • the Missouri feeds into the Mississippi
  • move or progress freely as if in a stream
    • The crowd flowed out of the stadium
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