conflow means to flow together into one stream, to converge. It carries an Arena rating of 1572, earned across 43 head-to-head judged battles.
Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, conflow ranks #1,299 of 17,142 for Most Ingenious Words, #1,833 of 17,124 for Most Sublime Words, #2,830 of 17,134 for Most Malleable Words, #3,432 of 17,151 for The Improbable.
conflow is pronounced /kənˈfloʊ/.
Why “conflow” is a great word
CONFLOW — [Verb] To flow together into one stream; to converge. From the English prefix con- (together) + flow. Calqued from the Latin cōnfluō (to flow together). Coined in 1606 by translator Philemon Holland. Unlike “converge,” which broadly describes meeting at any point, or “merge,” which often implies an abstract or corporate union, to conflow is the specific, liquid act of waters uniting. It is the silt-laden tributary staining a river’s clarity, the braiding of two creeks in a forest, or the moment separate rivulets on a windowpane erase their borders to become one sheet—a quiet, perpetual surrender of one course to another.
Etymology
From con- + flow. Calque of Latin cōnfluō, apparently coined by Philemon Holland in his translations of Suetonius and Ammianus Marcellinus.
verb
- to flow together into one stream, to converge
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