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synonyms for reflux

  • abatement
  • backflow
  • decay
  • decrease
  • degeneration
  • depreciation
  • deterioration
  • diminution
  • drop
  • dwindling
  • flagging
  • lessening
  • recession
  • retreat
  • shrinkage
  • sinking
  • slackening
  • subsidence
  • sweep
  • wane
  • waning
  • weakening
  • withdrawal
  • fading away
  • going out
  • low tide
  • low water
  • outward flow
  • petering out
  • refluence
  • retrocession
  • retroflux

antonyms for reflux

MOST RELEVANT
  • advance
  • development
  • enlargement
  • expansion
  • growth
  • improvement
  • increase
  • flow
  • incline
  • rise
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How to use reflux in a sentence

Desperate to feel better, Rustigian went to urgent care, where she was told that acid reflux was one cause of her tummy troubles.
HOW GRIEF UPSETS YOUR GUT HEALTHJULI FRAGAJULY 1, 2022TIME
Our boy is a very colicky baby and has dealt with a lot of acid reflux maybe.
5 PARENTS ON THE STRESS OF TRYING TO FEED THEIR BABIES AMID A NATIONWIDE FORMULA SHORTAGEELIANA DOCKTERMANMAY 13, 2022TIME
Emmanuel has a special stroller that helps keep his head in a position that won’t aggravate his persistent reflux, but Odunuga said she still has to pull over on the side of the road sometimes when she hears him projectile vomiting from the backseat.
BABIES ARE DYING OF SYPHILIS. IT’S 100% PREVENTABLE.BY CAROLINE CHEN, PHOTOGRAPHY BY TALIA HERMAN, SPECIAL TO PROPUBLICANOVEMBER 1, 2021PROPUBLICA
That perpetual flux and reflux of peoples of all stations drew ever more the eyes of Europe to the Orient.
THE PILGRIM'S SHELL OR FERGAN THE QUARRYMANEUGNE SUE
It is said by some that he there died of vexation because he could not discover the cause of the flux and reflux of the Euripus.
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A revolving eddy swung him in-shore, but the reflux caught and drove him a few yards lower down.
THE GIRL FROM KELLER'SHAROLD BINDLOSS
So do flux and reflux—the rhythm of change—alternate and persist in everything under the sky.
TESS OF THE D'URBERVILLESTHOMAS HARDY
The tides consist of two periodical motions of the waters of the sea, called the flux and reflux, or the flow and ebb.
THE BOOK OF CURIOSITIESI. PLATTS
This stream is regulated by the flux and reflux of the sea, it being constantly high and low water every six hours.
THE BOOK OF CURIOSITIESI. PLATTS
A reflux of the crowd separated him from Adam the Devil, and soon the foresight of the champion was but too well verified.
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