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FLOW FROM

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Be the result of

Synonyms:

be due; flow from

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Hypernyms (to "flow from" is one way to...):

ensue; result (issue or terminate (in a specified way, state, etc.); end)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s something

Credits

 Context examples: 

On the contrary it was a relief to her, to be spared the communication of what would give such affliction to them, and to be saved likewise from hearing that condemnation of Edward, which would probably flow from the excess of their partial affection for herself, and which was more than she felt equal to support.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

The study found that ice flow from West Antarctica — the Amundsen Sea sector, the Getz Ice Shelf and Marguerite Bay on the western Antarctic Peninsula — accounted for 89 percent of the increase.

(New Study Brings Antarctic Ice Loss Into Sharper Focus, NASA)

There was a faint, barely perceptible movement of the water as the fresh flow from one end urged its way toward the drain at the other.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)