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- noun Plural form of
water . - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
water .
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Examples
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If the waters are green or brown, see Green or brown waters.
Chapter 11 1997
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My sins cry aloud; Cain's murder did so: my afflictions cry aloud; _the floods have lifted up their voice_ (and waters are afflictions), _but thou, O Lord, art mightier than the voice of many waters_; [307] than many temporal, many spiritual afflictions, than any of either kind: and why dost thou not speak to me in that voice?
Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions Together with Death's Duel John Donne 1601
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Thou promisest to heal their waters, but _their miry places and standing waters_, thou sayest there, _thou wilt not heal_. [
Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions Together with Death's Duel John Donne 1601
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See the effect of it: The breadth of the waters is straitened, that is, the waters that had spread themselves, and flowed with liberty, are congealed, benumbed, arrested, bound up in crystal fetters.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon) 1721
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We have had hundreds of years since to decide what we call the waters surrounding us.
Army Rumour Service 2010
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We have had hundreds of years since to decide what we call the waters surrounding us.
Army Rumour Service 2010
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We have had hundreds of years since to decide what we call the waters surrounding us.
Army Rumour Service 2010
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We have had hundreds of years since to decide what we call the waters surrounding us.
Army Rumour Service 2010
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We have had hundreds of years since to decide what we call the waters surrounding us.
Army Rumour Service 2010
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We have had hundreds of years since to decide what we call the waters surrounding us.
Army Rumour Service 2010
GHibbs commented on the word waters
The term refers to amniotic fluid in which the foetus floats. The amniotic fluid, the 'waters', are released when the amniotic sack starts to leak.
Usually, if it has not already started, labour will start fairly soon after the 'waters' break, and the baby be born.
Occasionally, the 'waters' might break before the baby is mature enough to survive, but with excellent care a healthy child sometimes survives that problem.'>The 'waters' that 'break' before a baby is born is a plural only noun. 'I suddenly felt wet and realised that my waters had broken this morning'.
The term refers to amniotic fluid in which the foetus floats. The amniotic fluid, the 'waters', are released when the amniotic sack starts to leak.
Usually, if it has not already started, labour will start fairly soon after the 'waters' break, and the baby be born.
Occasionally, the 'waters' might break before the baby is mature enough to survive, but with excellent care a healthy child sometimes survives that problem.
December 6, 2011