noun
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a river that has no water (as in summer or during drought).
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(fig.) an optical illusion in which water or water-body is seen at a distance, caused by the refraction of light rays from the object through layers of air having different densities as the result of unequal temperature distributions; a mirage.
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anything that is apparently but not really existing, hence useless.
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a becoming nothing or non-existent.