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Distressdistress call
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Distressed
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Distressedness
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Distressing
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Distribute
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Distribution
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)
n
1: a branch of a river that flows away from the main stream and does not rejoin it [ant: affluent, confluent, feeder, tributary]
Merriam Webster's
noun (plural -taries) Date: 1863 a river branch flowing away from the main stream
Oxford Reference Dictionary
n. (pl. -ies) a branch of a river or glacier that does not return to the main stream after leaving it (as in a delta).
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
Distributary Dis*trib"u*ta*ry, a. Tending to distribute or be distributed; that distributes; distributive.
