CREEK Antonyms
Best Opposite Words For CREEK
| Word | Save | Syns.. | Usage | Type | ||
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| bayou | nounn | |||||
noun • a swampy arm or slow-moving outlet of a lake (term used mainly in Mississippi and Louisiana) | ||||||
| brook | verb, nounv, n | |||||
noun • a natural stream of water smaller than a river (and often a tributary of a river) verb • put up with something or somebody unpleasant | ||||||
| canal | nounn | |||||
noun • (astronomy) an indistinct surface feature of Mars once thought to be a system of channels; they are now believed to be an optical illusion • a bodily passage or tube lined with epithelial cells and conveying a secretion or other substance • long and narrow strip of water made for boats or for irrigation verb • provide (a city) with a canal | ||||||
| channel | verb, nounv, n | |||||
noun • a path over which electrical signals can pass • a passage for water (or other fluids) to flow through • a long narrow furrow cut either by a natural process (such as erosion) or by a tool (as e.g. a groove in a phonograph record) • a deep and relatively narrow body of water (as in a river or a harbor or a strait linking two larger bodies) that allows the best passage for vessels • (often plural) a means of communication or access • a bodily passage or tube lined with epithelial cells and conveying a secretion or other substance • a television station and its programs • a way of selling a company's product either directly or via distributors verb • transmit or serve as the medium for transmission • direct the flow of • send from one person or place to another | ||||||
| estuary | nounn | |||||
noun • the wide part of a river where it nears the sea; fresh and salt water mix | ||||||
| inlet | nounn | |||||
noun • an arm off of a larger body of water (often between rocky headlands) • an opening through which fluid is admitted to a tube or container | ||||||
| river | nounn | |||||
noun • a large natural stream of water (larger than a creek) | ||||||
| stream | verb, noun, adjectivev, n, adj | |||||
noun • a natural body of running water flowing on or under the earth • dominant course (suggestive of running water) of successive events or ideas • the act of flowing or streaming; continuous progression • something that resembles a flowing stream in moving continuously • a steady flow of a fluid (usually from natural causes) verb • to extend, wave or float outward, as if in the wind • exude profusely • move in large numbers • rain heavily • flow freely and abundantly | ||||||
| tributary | nounn | |||||
noun • a branch that flows into the main stream adjective satellite • (of a stream) flowing into a larger stream • paying tribute • tending to bring about; being partly responsible for | ||||||
| watercourse | nounn | |||||
noun • natural or artificial channel through which water flows • a natural body of running water flowing on or under the earth • a conduit through which water flows | ||||||
