to course
- verb
- /kɔrs/
- Is it healthy for our economy to have 18 million new lawsuits coursing through the system annually?
- blood coursed
- course through the veins
- course through the body
Great, I thought, Dopamine coursing through my motivation system.
- Great, I thought, Dopamine coursing through my motivation system.
- Absolute joy coursing through my body.
- All my life it's coursed through my body like my own blood, which I decode on to this paper.
Examples
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Absolute joy coursing through my body.
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The river began to course steadily through the valley after the heavy rain.
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The Book of the Dead already courses through my body.
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With three times the amount of blood coursing through your body.
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Their blood may course through my veins, but so does mine.
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It's like coursing through my whole body!
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Truth and evidence coursed through the world's Internet.
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The river was moving faster now, coursing between a series of steep hills.
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I could feel the blood coursing through my veins.
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The wind and the small waves coursed over it, and the sides of the boat quivered.
Fiction book (1996)
Synonyms
To let color or liquid spread and make marks
To move steadily in a stream like a liquid or gas
To flow out in large amounts, like liquid or tears
To flow into another river, lake, or sea
Antonyms
Idioms
Phrasal Verbs
Compounds
A situation likely to lead to conflict between people or groups if not changed
A course where teachers send lessons and students return work by mail or online for home study
A list of classes a college or university offers with times, requirements, and descriptions
- Specialized
An official record that a college gives for a completed course toward a degree
A series of talks about one subject that teachers give at a university or college
- UK
A layer of waterproof material at the bottom of walls near the ground that stops moisture rising
A layer of waterproof material in a wall near the ground that stops water rising
How Fast
Surface Forms
Etymology
Course (verb: flow) comes from Latin currere, which means 'to run'. When water or blood 'courses', it literally 'runs' along, so the origin fits the modern use.