Antonyms for reflux

Grammar : Noun

Spell : ree-fluhks

Phonetic Transcription : ˈriˌflʌks

Definition of reflux

Origin : early 15c., "a flowing back (of the sea, etc.)," from Medieval Latin refluxus, from Latin re- "back, again" (see re-) + fluxus "a flowing" (see flux). Digestive sense is recorded from 1937.

As in ebb : noun regression; decline

Example sentences :

Flux and reflux, the fire and the water, the water and the fire!
Extract from : « Dreamers of the Ghetto » by I. Zangwill

An old word, signifying the reflux of the waves by the force of the wind.
Extract from : « The Sailor's Word-Book » by William Henry Smyth

From it and to it, in endless flux and reflux, the life blood goes.
Extract from : « Looking Backward » by Edward Bellamy

It tends to make and to break fortunes, by the flux and reflux of paper.
Extract from : « Thirty Years' View (Vol. I of 2) » by Thomas Hart Benton

At Kulnah,62 indications of flow and reflux of the tide were evident.
Extract from : « Recollections of Thirty-nine Years in the Army » by Charles Alexander Gordon

The reflux of the tide exposes some of the aquatic animals of the period.
Extract from : « The World Before the Deluge » by Louis Figuier

Still it is but the beginning, and there will be a reflux before the stream sets in.
Extract from : « The Impostor » by Harold Bindloss

The ebb and flow of these questionings is eternal, as the flux and reflux of the sea itself.
Extract from : « Toilers of the Sea » by Victor Hugo

Would the hawser reach across this flux and reflux of death?
Extract from : « Overland » by John William De Forest

We admit of these causes after the first cause, the motion of the flux and reflux, and of the sea from east to west.
Extract from : « Buffon's Natural History, Volume I (of II) » by Georges Louis Leclerc de Buffon

Synonyms for reflux

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