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rivers

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/ˈɹɪvəz/ English

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noun

  1. A large and often winding stream which drains a land mass, carrying water down from higher areas to a lower point, oftentimes ending in another body of water, such as an ocean or in an inland sea.“Occasionally rivers overflow their banks and cause floods.”
  2. Any large flow of a liquid in a single body.“a river of blood”
  3. The last card dealt in a hand.
  4. A visually undesirable effect of white space running down a page, caused by spaces between words on consecutive lines happening to coincide.

verb

  1. To improve one’s hand to beat another player on the final card in a poker game.“Johnny rivered me by drawing that ace of spades.”

noun

  1. One who rives or splits.

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