Synonyms

1. ebb

Sentence Examples

1. He closed his eyes and breathed deeply, trying to erase the image and stifle the hot gush of acid reflux.
2. But there was no time the explosion thundered, earth gaped, the smoke which hurled through the clefts obscured the sky the sea flowed back as though driven by the blast of flame which darted from the grotto as if from the jaws of some gigantic fiery chimera the reflux took the bark out twenty toises the solid rocks cracked to their base, and separated like blocks beneath the operation of the wedge a portion of the vault was carried up towards heaven, as if it had been built of cardboard the green and blue and topaz conflagration and black lava of liquefactions clashed and combated an instant beneath a majestic dome of smoke then oscillated, declined, and fell successively the mighty monoliths of rock which the violence of the explosion had not been able to uproot from the bed of ages they bowed to each other like grave and stiff old men, then prostrating themselves, lay down forever in their dusty tomb.
3. To accomplish the change was like a reflux of being, and this when the plasticity of youth was no longer his when the fibre of him had become tough and knotty when the warp and the woof of him had made of him an adamantine texture, harsh and unyielding when the face of his spirit had become iron and all his instincts and axioms had crystallised into set rules, cautions, dislikes, and desires.
4. He did not feel tired or sweaty, he did not experience the stab of a stitch or the burn of acid reflux, and his limbs were immune to cramp.