Synonyms of the word

outflow

• n. The process of flowing out.
• v. (intransitive) To flow outward.

discharge

• v. To accomplish or complete, as an obligation.
• v. To free of a debt, claim, obligation, responsibility, accusation, etc.; to absolve; to acquit; to clear.
• v. To send away (a creditor) satisfied by payment; to pay one's debt or obligation to.
• v. To set aside; to annul; to dismiss.
• v. To expel or let go.
• v. To let fly, as a missile; to shoot.
• v. (electricity) To release (an accumulated charge).
• v. To relieve of an office or employment; to send away from service; to dismiss.
• v. To release legally from confinement; to set at liberty.
• v. To operate (any weapon that fires a projectile, such as a shotgun or sling).
• v. To release (an auxiliary assumption) from the list of assumptions used in arguments, and return to the…
• v. To unload a ship or another means of transport.
• v. To put forth, or remove, as a charge or burden; to take out, as that with which anything is loaded or…
• v. To give forth; to emit or send out.
• v. To let fly; to give expression to; to utter.
• v. (transitive, textiles) To bleach out or to remove or efface, as by a chemical process.
• v. (obsolete, Scotland) To prohibit; to forbid.
• n. (medicine, uncountable) pus or exudate (other than blood) from a wound or orifice, usually due to infection…
• n. the act of accomplishing (an obligation); performance.
• n. the act of expelling or letting go.
• n. (electricity) the act of releasing an accumulated charge.
• n. (medicine) the act of releasing an inpatient from hospital.
• n. (military) the act of releasing a member of the armed forces from service.
• n. (hydrology) the volume of water transported by a river in a certain amount of time, usually in units of…

effluence

• n. The process of flowing out.

efflux

• n. The process of flowing out.
• n. That which has flowed out.
• v. To run out.
• v. To flow forth.
• v. (obsolete) To pass away.

escape

• v. (intransitive) To get free, to free oneself.
• v. (transitive) To avoid (any unpleasant person or thing); to elude, get away from.
• v. (intransitive) To avoid capture; to get away with something, avoid punishment.
• v. (transitive) To elude the observation or notice of; to not be seen or remembered by.
• v. (transitive, computing) To cause (a single character, or all such characters in a string) to be interpreted…
• v. (computing) To halt a program or command by pressing a key (such as the "Esc" key) or combination of keys.
• n. The act of leaving a dangerous or unpleasant situation.
• n. (computing) escape key.
• n. (programming) The text character represented by 27 (decimal) or 1B (hexadecimal).
• n. (snooker) A successful shot from a snooker position.
• n. (manufacturing) A defective product that is allowed to leave a manufacturing facility.
• n. (obsolete) That which escapes attention or restraint; a mistake, oversight, or transgression.
• n. Leakage or outflow, as of steam or a liquid, or an electric current through defective insulation.
• n. (obsolete) A sally.
• n. (architecture) An apophyge.

flow

• n. A movement in people or things with a particular way in large numbers or amounts.
• n. The movement of a real or figurative fluid.
• n. (mathematics) A formalization of the idea of the motion of particles in a fluid, as a group action of…
• n. The rising movement of the tide.
• n. Smoothness or continuity.
• n. The amount of a fluid that moves or the rate of fluid movement.
• n. (psychology) A mental state characterized by concentration, focus and enjoyment of a given task.
• n. The emission of blood during menstruation.
• n. (rap music slang) The ability to skilfully rap along to a beat.
• v. (intransitive) To move as a fluid from one position to another.
• v. (intransitive) To proceed; to issue forth.
• v. (intransitive) To move or match smoothly, gracefully, or continuously.
• v. (intransitive) To have or be in abundance; to abound, so as to run or flow over.
• v. (intransitive) To hang loosely and wave.
• v. (intransitive) To rise, as the tide; opposed to ebb.
• v. (transitive, computing) To arrange (text in a wordprocessor, etc.) so that it wraps neatly into a designated…
• v. (transitive) To cover with water or other liquid; to overflow; to inundate; to flood.
• v. (transitive) To cover with varnish.
• v. (intransitive) To discharge excessive blood from the uterus.

formation

• n. Something possessing structure or form.
• n. The act of assembling a group or structure.
• n. (geology) A rock or face of a mountain.
• n. (military) A grouping of military units or smaller formations under a command, such as a brigade, division,…
• n. (military) An arrangement of moving troops, ships, or aircraft, such as a wedge, line abreast, or echelon…
• n. (sports) An arrangement of players designed to facilitate certain plays.
• n. The process of influencing or guiding a person to a deeper understanding of a particular vocation.
• n. The process during which something comes into being and gains its characteristics.

fountain

• n. (originally) A natural source of water; a spring.
• n. An artificial, usually ornamental, water feature (usually in a garden or public place) consisting of one…
• n. The structure from which an artificial fountain can issue.
• n. A reservoir from which liquid can be drawn.
• n. A source or origin of a flow (e.g., of favors or knowledge).
• n. (heraldry) A roundel barry wavy argent and azure.
• n. (juggling) A juggling pattern typically done with an even number of props where each prop is caught by…
• n. (US) A soda fountain.
• v. (intransitive) To flow or gush as if from a fountain.

leak

• n. A crack, crevice, fissure, or hole which admits water or other fluid, or lets it escape.
• n. The entrance or escape of a fluid through a crack, fissure, or other aperture.
• n. A divulgation, or disclosure, of information previously held secret.
• n. The person through whom such divulgation, or disclosure, occurs.
• n. A loss of electricity through imperfect insulation, or the point where it occurs.
• n. (computing) The gradual loss of a system resource caused by failure to deallocate previously reserved…
• n. (vulgar, slang, especially with the verb "take") An act of urination.
• v. To allow fluid to escape or enter something that should be sealed.
• v. To reveal secret information.
• adj. (obsolete) Leaky.

leakage

• n. an act of leaking, or something that leaks.
• n. the amount lost due to a leak.
• n. an undesirable flow of electric current through insulation.
• n. loss of retail stock, especially due to theft.
• n. (sound recording) The situation where sound is picked up by a microphone from a source other than that…

outpouring

• n. The sudden flowing of a large amount of something.

run

• v. (vertebrates) To move swiftly.
• v. (fluids) To flow.
• v. (nautical, of a vessel) To sail before the wind, in distinction from reaching or sailing close-hauled.
• v. (social) To carry out an activity.
• v. To extend or persist, statically or dynamically, through space or time.
• v. (transitive) To execute or carry out a plan, procedure, or program.
• v. To pass or go quickly in thought or conversation.
• v. (copulative) To become different in a way mentioned (usually to become worse).
• v. (transitive) To cost a large amount of money.
• v. (intransitive) Of stitches or stitched clothing, to unravel.
• v. To pursue in thought; to carry in contemplation.
• v. To cause to enter; to thrust.
• v. To drive or force; to cause, or permit, to be driven.
• v. To cause to be drawn; to mark out; to indicate; to determine.
• v. To encounter or incur (a danger or risk).
• v. To put at hazard; to venture; to risk.
• v. To tease with sarcasms and ridicule.
• v. To sew (a seam) by passing the needle through material in a continuous line, generally taking a series…
• v. To control or have precedence in a card game.
• v. To be in form thus, as a combination of words.
• v. (archaic) To be popularly known; to be generally received.
• v. To have growth or development.
• v. To tend, as to an effect or consequence; to incline.
• v. To have a legal course; to be attached; to continue in force, effect, or operation; to follow; to go in…
• v. (golf) To strike (the ball) in such a way as to cause it to run along the ground, as when approaching…
• v. (video games, rare) To speedrun.
• n. Act or instance of running, of moving rapidly using the feet.
• n. Act or instance of hurrying (to or from a place) (not necessarily by foot); dash or errand, trip.
• n. A pleasure trip.
• n. Flight, instance or period of fleeing.
• n. Migration (of fish).
• n. A group of fish that migrate, or ascend a river for the purpose of spawning.
• n. (skiing, bobsledding) A single trip down a hill, as in skiing and bobsledding.
• n. A (regular) trip or route.
• n. The route taken while running or skiing.
• n. The distance sailed by a ship.
• n. A voyage.
• n. An enclosure for an animal; a track or path along which something can travel.
• n. (Australia, New Zealand) Rural landholding for farming, usually for running sheep, and operated by a runholder.
• n. State of being current; currency; popularity.
• n. A continuous period (of time) marked by a trend; a period marked by a continuing trend.
• n. (card games) A sequence of cards in a suit in a card game.
• n. (music) A rapid passage in music, especially along a scale.
• n. A trial.
• n. A flow of liquid; a leak.
• n. (chiefly eastern Midland US, especially Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia) A small creek or part thereof…
• n. A production quantity (such as in a factory).
• n. The length of a showing of a play, film, TV series, etc.
• n. A quick pace, faster than a walk.
• n. A sudden series of demands on a bank or other financial institution, especially characterised by great…
• n. Any sudden large demand for something.
• n. The top of a step on a staircase, also called a tread, as opposed to the rise.
• n. The horizontal length of a set of stairs.
• n. A standard or unexceptional group or category.
• n. (baseball) A score (point scored) by a runner making it around all the bases and over home plate.
• n. (cricket) A point scored.
• n. (American football) A gain of a (specified) distance; a running play.
• n. Unrestricted use of.
• n. A line of knit stitches that have unravelled, particularly in a nylon stocking.
• n. (nautical) The stern of the underwater body of a ship from where it begins to curve upward and inward.
• n. (construction) Horizontal dimension of a slope.
• n. (mining) The horizontal distance to which a drift may be carried, either by licence of the proprietor…
• n. A pair or set of millstones.
• n. (video games) A playthrough.
• n. (slang) A period of extended (usually daily) drug use.
• n. (golf) The movement communicated to a golf ball by running it.
• n. (golf) The distance a ball travels after touching the ground from a stroke.
• n. (video games, rare) A speedrun.
• adj. In a liquid state; melted or molten.
• adj. Cast in a mould.
• adj. Exhausted; depleted (especially with "down" or "out").
• adj. (of a fish) Travelled, migrated; having made a migration or a spawning run.

spring

• v. To jump or leap.
• v. To pass over by leaping.
• v. To produce or disclose unexpectedly, especially of surprises, traps, etc.
• v. (slang) To release or set free, especially from prison.
• v. To come into being, often quickly or sharply.
• v. To start or rise suddenly, as from a covert.
• v. To cause to spring up; to start or rouse, as game; to cause to rise from the earth, or from a covert.
• v. (nautical) To crack or split; to bend or strain so as to weaken.
• v. To bend by force, as something stiff or strong; to force or put by bending, as a beam into its sockets,…
• v. To issue with speed and violence; to move with activity; to dart; to shoot.
• v. To fly back.
• v. (intransitive) To bend from a straight direction or plane surface; to become warped.
• v. To shoot up, out, or forth; to come to the light; to begin to appear; to emerge, like a plant from its…
• v. To issue or proceed, as from a parent or ancestor; to result, as from a cause, motive, reason, or principle.
• v. (obsolete) To grow; to prosper.
• v. (architecture, masonry, transitive) To build (an arch).
• v. (transitive, archaic) To sound (a rattle, such as a watchman's rattle).
• n. A leap; a bound; a jump.
• n. (countable) Traditionally the first of the four seasons of the year in temperate regions, in which plants…
• n. (countable) Meteorologically, the months of March, April and May in the northern hemisphere or September,…
• n. (countable) The astronomically delineated period from the moment of vernal equinox, approximately March…
• n. (countable) Spring tide; a tide of greater-than-average range, that is, around the first or third quarter…
• n. (countable) A place where water emerges from the ground.
• n. (uncountable) The property of a body of springing to its original form after being compressed, stretched,…
• n. Elastic power or force.
• n. (countable) A mechanical device made of flexible or coiled material that exerts force when it is bent,…
• n. (countable, slang) An erection of the penis.
• n. (countable) The source of an action or of a supply.
• n. Any active power; that by which action, or motion, is produced or propagated; cause; origin; motive.
• n. That which springs, or is originated, from a source.
• n. (obsolete) That which causes one to spring; specifically, a lively tune.
• n. The time of growth and progress; early portion; first stage.
• n. (countable, nautical) A rope attaching the bow of a vessel to the stern-side of the jetty, or vice versa,…
• n. (nautical) A line led from a vessel's quarter to her cable so that by tightening or slacking it she can…
• n. (nautical) A crack or fissure in a mast or yard, running obliquely or transversely.