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But when they started to reflow the hydrogen, they noticed another leak.

From Washington Post • Sep. 3, 2022

The ebbing of the tide, or reflow of the waters, which have been pressed back.

From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir

So men reasoned when sober reflection returned, and at length the tide of public confidence, which had ebbed so strongly, began to reflow, and once more to creep up the shores of England.

From The Story of the Atlantic Telegraph by Field, Henry M. (Henry Martyn)

The pure rock, and the flow and reflow, make these bathing-boxes very agreeable, and the water, which is that of the Gulf Stream, is at a temperature of 72 degrees.

From To Cuba and Back by Dana, Richard Henry

The common prisons are the great centres whence flow, and to which reflow, incessantly those waves of corruption which gradually gain on the capital, and leave there such pernicious waifs and strays.

From The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 4 of 6 by Sue, Eugène