River

Noun

 * 1) A large and often winding stream which drains a land mass, carrying water down from higher areas to a lower point, ending at an ocean or in an inland sea. Occasionally rivers overflow their banks and cause floods.
 * 2) Any large flow of a liquid in a single body (e.g., 'a river of blood').
 * 3)  The last card dealt in a hand.

Verb

 * 1)  To improve one’s hand to beat another player on the final card in a poker game.

Adjectives for River
winding; wandering; turbulent; subterranean; trickling; unbridged; whirling; solitary; speeding; mystic; subsiding; soft-flowing; frozen; long; impassable; hissing; historic; narrowed; exulting; far-off; pelting; babbling; ringing; racing; saturnine; rapid; fruitful; leaping; clear; deep-banked; booming; limpid; swollen; rushing; rife; turbid; ruinous; slow; noiseless; flowing; remarkable; encroaching; torrential; murmuring; roaring; majestic; spectral; mighty; unfordable; peaceful; sunlit; meandering; cheerful; pebble-paved; immense; incorrigible; glassy; brattling; capricious; hurrying; sparkling; resplendent; useless; failing; reflecting; quiet; doubling; hesitating; sluggish; salmon-thronged; ever-deepening; imaginary; freshening; gray; swift; silent; channeled; raucous; solemn; foaming; noble; chafing; brimming;

Verbs for River
breast—; bridge—; divert—; emerge from—; ford—; ply—; plunge into—; stock—; —abounds in; —babbles; —batters; — bawls; —chatters; —churns; —eddies; — flows; —foams; —frets; —glides; —glitters; —growls; —gurgles; —laps; —laughs; —leaps; —loiters; —meanders; —murmurs; —races; —rises; —roars; —sallies; —stirs; —subsides; —swells; —threads.

Thesaurus
fresh, freshet, gill, kill, lazy stream, meandering stream, midchannel, midstream, millstream, moving road, navigable river, pour, quantity, race, racing stream, rill, rivulet, run, rundle, runlet, runnel, sike, spate, spill stream, stream, stream action, streamlet, subterranean river, torrent, tributary, wadi, watercourse, waterflood, waterway, Niagara, adolescent stream, arroyo, beck, bourn, braided stream, branch, brook, brooklet, burn, cascade, cataract, channel, creek, crick, deluge, estuary, flood, flow, flowing stream, fluviation.

Etymology
From riviere: <  *undefined: <  riparius: < riparia: < ripa: <.

Derived terms
cry someone a river; riverbank; riverbed; river basin; river bed; river birch; river blindness; riverboat; river boat; river bottom; river boulder; river dolphin; river duck; riverfront; river hog; river horse; riverine; river lamprey; river limper; river otter; river pear; river prawn; river shad; riverside; riverward; sell down the river; submarine river; up the river.

Noun

 * Achumawi: ajúmmá
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 * Amharic:
 * Arabic: نهر,  ,
 * Armenian:
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 * Belarusian: рака (plural: рэкі)
 * Bengali:, নদী
 * Betawi: kali
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 * Burmese: မြစ်
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 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 河, 江, 河流, 水流, 川
 * Cantonese: 河 (ho4), 江 (gong1), 河流 (ho4 lau4)
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 * Greek: ποτάμι
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 * Kannada: (nadi)
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 * Khmer: ទន្លេ
 * Korean: (江)
 * Koryak:
 * Kumyk:
 * Kyrgyz: өзөн, суу, дарыя, дайра
 * Lao: ແມ່ນ້ຳ
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 * Malay:
 * Malayalam: നദി (nadi)
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 * Mongolian: гол
 * Nanticoke:
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 * Ngarrindjeri:
 * Norwegian:, , å
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 * Russian:, речка
 * Sanskrit: (nadī́)
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Serbian:, cyrillic: peka
 * Sicilian:
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 * Tatar: ,
 * Telugu: (nadi)
 * Thai: (maenam)
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 * Turkmen:
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 * Ukrainian: ріка, річка
 * Urdu:
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 * Vietnamese:
 * Volapük: flumed
 * Welsh:
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 * Armenian:
 * Catalan: riu
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Verb

 * 1) to drive/set a rivet

Related terms

 * rive

Anagrams

 * virer