downstream
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2.7
- adverb
- /ˈdaʊnˌstriːm/
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aguas abajo
- Or else he got in the river and headed downstream.
- upstream and downstream
- downstream of a dam
- flow downstream
Let's see the X axis and which oscillates as it goes downstream or upstream.
- Let's see the X axis and which oscillates as it goes downstream or upstream.
- But, but we're talking about genetics and we don't know what's going to happen downstream with their children, their grandchildren.
- And gradually it percolates down and over maybe a week order a week, it makes its way downstream.
- And we don't spend enough time going downstream, going downstream and understand what the outcome.
Examples
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However, those who lived downstream still suffered from the effects of untreated water.
Academic text (2011) -
We need to find a crossing further downstream.
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So it's going in the right direction, going downstream, so to speak.
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It's way down, way downstream now.
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Soldiers will head downstream until they find a crossing.
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Flowing downstream, caught in the current.
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Just stay close to the shore downstream.
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A tree branch and other flotsam are being carried downstream by the current.
Fiction book (1996) -
About twenty-five or thirty feet downstream from this bridge, there was a hut on the canal bank.
Fiction book (1992) -
The boat floated downstream with the current as the sun set over the horizon.
Synonyms
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2.8
In the direction a river flows away from its source
Antonyms
How Upstream
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Downstream comes from the parts down ('toward a lower place') and stream ('flowing water'), which you can think of as 'with the current'. So, downstream means going or moving 'in the direction the river flows'.