downriver
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2.8
- adverb
- /ˈdaʊnˌrɪvər/
:
río abajo
- After the heavy rain, the water flowed rapidly downriver, creating strong currents.
- miles downriver
If I'm where I was with the ocelots was a little bit further downriver, downriver.
- If I'm where I was with the ocelots was a little bit further downriver, downriver.
- All right, the plan is I'm going to go downriver to one of my favorite spots in the sandbar.
- Still the loss of and a toy crossing the undertow and downriver.
Examples
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All right, the plan is I'm going to go downriver to one of my favorite spots in the sandbar.
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How far downriver does this path go?
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But I think in this case, it's safe to suggest that this water is moving downriver at the moment.
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You can meet me downriver later.
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Let's start the search downriver.
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We spent our entire vacation downriver.
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My only chance is to go downriver to Cairo.
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They were picked up by a fast launch, and they went off downriver.
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The barn was quite a distance downriver from the house, nearer the woods.
Fiction book (1998) -
Having dived, he feels the current taking him downriver, at first slowly, and then with some urgency.
Fiction book (1995)
Synonyms
38
2.7
In the direction a river or stream flows, away from its start
Antonyms
How Far
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word downriver is a simple combination of down ('toward a lower place') and river ('flowing water'). So it means moving in the direction the river flows, away from where it starts.