deflow

English

Etymology

From de- +‎ flow: compare Latin defluere.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɪˈfləʊ/

Verb

deflow (third-person singular simple present deflows, present participle deflowing, simple past and past participle deflowed)

1. (obsolete) To flow down.
   • 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:

     a collection of some superfluous matter deflowing from the body

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “deflow”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• flowed, folwed, fowled, wolfed