The bridge couldn't sustain the force of the strong current and collapsed.
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Current
/kəˈrɛɳʈ/
Synonyms for "current" (632 found)
Ranked by relevance and common usage.
Closest matches (127)
Noun(18 words)
a la modeabsorption currentacacceptedaccessibleaccidentalaccompanyingaccustomedactive currentactualadoadvanceadvisedaffirmedaffluenceaffluxaffluxionafloatafootaim
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air currentall the rageall the thingalternating currentangular motionannouncedas isascendingascentau courantau faitaverageawareaxial motionazimuthbackflowingbackingbackward motionbandied aboutbase currentbearingbeingbentbesettingbroadcastbrought to noticebrownian movementbruited aboutcareercathode currentcirculatedcircumstantialclimbingcoevalcollector currentcommoncommon knowledgecommon propertycommonly knowncommonplaceconcourseconduction currentconfluenceconfluxconformableconsuetudinarycontemporaneouscontemporaryconvection currentconventionalcoursecrosscurrentcurrent of aircustomarycycledate
Adjective(33 words)
abreastactual conditionsactual hardwareactual outcomeactual resultscontemporary architecturecontemporary artifactcontemporary artistcontemporary civilizationcontemporary classroom toolscontemporary collectioncontemporary dialoguecontemporary englishcontemporary eracontemporary erascontemporary featurecontemporary fieldcontemporary french literaturecontemporary historycontemporary history course
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contemporary history syllabuscontemporary lawcontemporary musiccontemporary practicecontemporary romanian historycontemporary sciencecontemporary societycontemporary stylecontemporary technologycontemporary worldcontemporary writingscurrent processescurrent state of progress
Strong matches (189)
dcdeclareddefluxiondelta currentdescendingdescentdielectric displacement currentdiffuseddirect currentdirectiondirection linedisplacement currentdisseminateddistributeddoingdominantdowndraftdownflowdownpourdownward motion
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draftdraughtdraughtsmandraughtydriftdriftageebbingeddy currentelectric currentelectric streamelectron cloudelectron flowelectron gaselectron streamemission currentepidemicestablishedeventuatingeverydayexciting currentexistentexistingextantfall windfamiliarfashionableflightfloodflowflow of airflowingfluencyfluxfollowing windforceforward motionfree alternating currentfreshgalvanic currentgenerally acceptedglacial movementgoinggoing aboutgoing aroundgoing ongushhabitualhackneyedhappeninghead windheadinghelmsmanshiphigh-frequency currenthiphouseholdidle currentimmanentimmediatein beingin circulationin effectin existencein fashionin forcein handin printin stylein the airin the knowin the newsin the windin vogueincidentalinclinationindraftinduced currentinduction currentinflowinformedinhalationinrushinspirationinstantionization currentjetstreamjuicekatabatic windknownlatelatestlaylielineline of directionline of marchlivelivinglow-frequency currentmade publicmagnetizing currentmain currentmainstreammill runmillracemodmodern
Noun(25 words)
diet trenddriftdrift lazilyelectric currentelectricityenacted education statuteflowsgoinghot topicincumbentincumbent partyis presentlanguage education trendlastlatestlive showsliving term conceptliving term usagemainstream lifemodern
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modern agricultural systemmodern artworkmodern cultural practicemodern culturemodern era
Adjective(36 words)
dutch stroomexisting arrangementexisting knowledgeexisting orderexisting programsexisting sequenceexisting systemextant speciesfluid motionfrischgerman stromhotincumbent arrangementlatest chroniclelive forecast updateliving beingsliving creatureliving entityliving organism specimensliving term
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living term examplemayoral election coveragemodern american historymodern artifactmodern brandingmodern citiesmodern civilizationmodern codemodern courtmodern craftmodern data processormodern devicemodern egyptmodern era culturemodern european historymodern furniture
Preposition(2 words)
in current timesin modern times
Related words (316)
Adjective(65 words)
modern furniture designmodern history lessonmodern imprint logomodern irrigation practicemodern itemsmodern labelmodern lawmodern linguisticsmodern literaturemodern manualsmodern markmodern methodmodern musicmodern nation statesmodern pedagogymodern practicemodern prose stylemodern residentmodern scriptmodern society
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modern speechmodern systemmodern timemodern timelinemodern united states historymodern usagemodern vegetation evidencemodern-daymodernenew informationnew piece of evidencenew presentnew regulationnewest methodnewsieroccurrentongoing activityongoing pushpresent daypresent day culturepresent erapresent findingspresent health statuspresent medical historypresent statepresent studypresent tense formpresent tensespresent-day assessmentpresent-day culturereal time datarecentrecent designrecent evidencerecent historyrecent imprintrecentestrelevant topictimeliesttopical powdertrendiestup-to-date statusupdated curriculumvalid conclusionvalid diagnosis code
Noun(74 words)
modern governmentmodern history curriculummodern history textbooksmodern imprintmodern layoutmodern speech formmodern studiesmodern timesmodern youmodernistmore actualmore ongoingmost contemporarymost existingmost ongoingmost recentmost up-to-datemovementnewestnews article
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noncapitalnowcast systemold norse straumurpeakingperformingpolitical status quopresentpresent a casepresent a prizepresent a proposalpresent archaic formpresent basispresent conditionpresent condition datapresent day scholarshipspresent eventpresent formpresent grouppresent health informationpresent informationpresent lifepresent momentpresent readingpresent recordspresent resultspresent state datapresent technologypresent tensepresent testimonialspresent testimonials in portfoliopresent timepresent-day phrasepresent-day societyprocessingproperly maintainedreal-time statusromanian curentspanish eléctricospot pricestate of present momentstreamingstreamstendenciesthe livingthe presenttidestranspiringtrendup to dateup to date formup-to-dateupdatingwaftwell maintained records
modishmonsoonmotionmountingmovementmovement of airmultiphase currentnavigationnewnewfashionednormalnormativenotoriousoblique motionobtainingoccasionaloccurringonon footongoing
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onrushonward courseopenordinaryorientationoutflowoutput currentpandemicpassagepassingpilotingplate currentplatitudinousplungingpointpopularpostedpredominantpredominatingprescribedprescriptivepresentpresent daypresent-agepresent-daypresent-timeprevailingprevalentproclaimedprogresspropagatedproverbialpublicpublishedpulsating direct currentquarterraceradial motionrampantrandom motionrangereactive currentreceivedrecentreflowingrefluencerefluxregnantregressionregularregulationreigningreportedresultantretrogressionriferisingrotary currentroutinerulingrumoredrunrunningrushsetsideward motionsimultaneoussingle-phase alternating currentsinkingsmartsoaringspace chargespatespreadstandardstatedsteeragesteeringstereotypedsternwaystockstray currentstreamstream of airstylishsubsidingsubsistentsubsistingsurgeswingtail windtaking placetalked abouttalked-abouttalked-oftelecasttelevisedtendencytenorthat bethat isthe general tendencythe main coursethermionic currentthermoelectric currentthree-phase alternating currenttidetime spirittime-honoredtonetopicaltracktraditionaltrajecttrajettrendtrendytritetruisticunder the sununder wayundercurrentundertowuniversaluniversally admitteduniversally recognizedup-to-dateup-to-datishup-to-the-minuteupdraftupward motionusualvernacularvoltaic currentwater flowwatt currentwaywell-kennedwell-knownwell-recognizedwell-understoodwhisperedwhispered aboutwidely knownwidespreadwindwontedzeitgeist
Adverb(3 words)
more contemporarymore living descriptionmore modern history
Determiner(3 words)
more valid reasoningmost modern historymost present
Verb(3 words)
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15 entriesair currentcurrent editioncurrent eventscurrent weathercurrent yeareducational trendelectric currentfashion trendlatest editionlatest modelnewest versionocean currentpresent instantpresent momentrecent update
Collocations
10 entriesair currentcurrent affairscurrent eventscurrent methodcurrent pricecurrent statuscurrent weathercurrent yearelectric currentocean current
Inflections
3 entriesDerivations
3 entriesAntonyms
1 entriessimilar
20 entriesShowing 16 of 20 words.
Translations
79 translations across 66 languages.
Albanian
4 entries- korrént noun (time rate of flow of electric charge)
- korrénti noun (time rate of flow of electric charge)
- rrýma noun (time rate of flow of electric charge)
- rrýmë noun (time rate of flow of electric charge)
Arabic
1 entries- تَيَّار noun (time rate of flow of electric charge)
Aragonese
1 entries- corrient noun (time rate of flow of electric charge)
Armenian
1 entries- հոսանք noun (time rate of flow of electric charge)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- cərəyan noun (time rate of flow of electric charge)
Basque
1 entries- korronte noun (time rate of flow of electric charge)
Belarusian
1 entries- ток noun (time rate of flow of electric charge)
Bengali
1 entries- প্রবাহ noun (time rate of flow of electric charge)
Bulgarian
1 entries- ток noun (time rate of flow of electric charge)
Burmese
1 entries- လျှပ်စီး noun (time rate of flow of electric charge)
Catalan
1 entries- corrent noun (time rate of flow of electric charge)
Central Melanau
1 entries- karen noun (time rate of flow of electric charge)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 電流 /电流 noun (time rate of flow of electric charge)
Czech
1 entries- proud noun (time rate of flow of electric charge)
Danish
2 entries- strøm noun (time rate of flow of electric charge)
- strømstyrke noun (time rate of flow of electric charge)
Dutch
1 entries- stroom noun (time rate of flow of electric charge)
Esperanto
1 entries- kurento noun (time rate of flow of electric charge)
Estonian
1 entries- elektrivool noun (time rate of flow of electric charge)
Finnish
2 entries- sähkövirta noun (time rate of flow of electric charge)
- virta noun (time rate of flow of electric charge)
French
1 entries- courant noun (time rate of flow of electric charge)
Galician
1 entries- corrente noun (time rate of flow of electric charge)
Georgian
1 entries- დენი noun (time rate of flow of electric charge)
German
1 entries- Strom noun (time rate of flow of electric charge)
Greek
1 entries- εντάση noun (time rate of flow of electric charge)
Hebrew
1 entries- זֶרֶם noun (time rate of flow of electric charge)
Hindi
2 entries- धारा noun (time rate of flow of electric charge)
- प्रवाह noun (time rate of flow of electric charge)
Hungarian
1 entries- áram noun (time rate of flow of electric charge)
Interlingua
1 entries- currente noun (time rate of flow of electric charge)
Italian
1 entries- corrente noun (time rate of flow of electric charge)
Japanese
1 entries- 電流 noun (time rate of flow of electric charge)
Kazakh
2 entries- ток noun (time rate of flow of electric charge)
- электр тогы noun (time rate of flow of electric charge)
Korean
1 entries- 전류 noun (time rate of flow of electric charge)
Kyrgyz
1 entries- ток noun (time rate of flow of electric charge)
Lao
1 entries- ກະແສໄຟຟ້າ noun (time rate of flow of electric charge)
Latvian
1 entries- strāva noun (time rate of flow of electric charge)
Lithuanian
1 entries- srovė noun (time rate of flow of electric charge)
Macedonian
1 entries- струја noun (time rate of flow of electric charge)
Malay
1 entries- arus noun (time rate of flow of electric charge)
Mongolian
1 entries- гүйдэл noun (time rate of flow of electric charge)
Māori
1 entries- iahiko noun (time rate of flow of electric charge)
Norwegian Bokmål
2 entries- strøm noun (time rate of flow of electric charge)
- strømstyrke noun (time rate of flow of electric charge)
Norwegian Nynorsk
2 entries- straum noun (time rate of flow of electric charge)
- straumstyrke noun (time rate of flow of electric charge)
Occitan
1 entries- corrent noun (time rate of flow of electric charge)
Persian
1 entries- جریان noun (time rate of flow of electric charge)
Polish
2 entries- natężenie prądu noun (time rate of flow of electric charge)
- prąd noun (time rate of flow of electric charge)
Portuguese
2 entries- amperagem noun (time rate of flow of electric charge)
- corrente noun (time rate of flow of electric charge)
Romanian
1 entries- curent noun (time rate of flow of electric charge)
Russian
1 entries- ток noun (time rate of flow of electric charge)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- strúja noun (time rate of flow of electric charge)
- стру́ја noun (time rate of flow of electric charge)
Silesian
1 entries- sztrům noun (time rate of flow of electric charge)
Slovak
1 entries- prúd noun (time rate of flow of electric charge)
Slovene
1 entries- tok noun (time rate of flow of electric charge)
Spanish
1 entries- corriente noun (time rate of flow of electric charge)
Swahili
1 entries- mkondo noun (time rate of flow of electric charge)
Swedish
1 entries- ström noun (time rate of flow of electric charge)
Tagalog
1 entries- kaampiran noun (time rate of flow of electric charge)
Tajik
1 entries- ҷараён noun (time rate of flow of electric charge)
Tatar
1 entries- агым noun (time rate of flow of electric charge)
Telugu
1 entries- కరెంటు noun (time rate of flow of electric charge)
Thai
2 entries- กระแส noun (time rate of flow of electric charge)
- กระแสไฟฟ้า noun (time rate of flow of electric charge)
Turkish
1 entries- akım noun (time rate of flow of electric charge)
Turkmen
1 entries- tok noun (time rate of flow of electric charge)
Ukrainian
1 entries- струм noun (time rate of flow of electric charge)
Uyghur
1 entries- توك noun (time rate of flow of electric charge)
Uzbek
1 entries- tok noun (time rate of flow of electric charge)
Vietnamese
1 entries- dòng điện noun (time rate of flow of electric charge)
Sample sentences
24 total sentences available.
We rowed up the river against the current.
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Everyone of us will have to accept the current of the times.
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The figurative meaning is no longer in current use.
Source: tatoeba (44380)
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