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Surging

adjective

Characterized by great swelling waves or surges. Synonyms: billowing, billowy. "The restless billowing sea" , "Surging waves"

Surge

verb

(past & past part. surged; pres. part. surging)

Rise and move, as in waves or billows. Synonyms: billow, heave.

Rise rapidly. Synonyms: soar, soar up, soar upwards, zoom.

Rise or move forward. Synonym: tide.

Rise or heave upward under the influence of a natural force such as a wave. Synonym: scend.

See one's performance improve.

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... boat came abreast of the schooner Beaver, surging at her cables not more than a quarter of a mile away, Donald called out in English to the rowers in his boat that each should seize one of the Indian guards and throw him overboard, while he would stand ready to aid any one, or all of ...

— At War with Pontiac - The Totem of the Bear • Kirk Munroe and J. Finnemore

... on another surging of his admiration launched the resolve that he would serve her blindly, without one question. How, when, where, and the means and the aim, he did not think of. There was she, and here was he, and heaven and a great ...

— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith

... fields, or who is going to get the product of his toil, he will be disinclined to sow anything. A striking illustration of such a state is the case of the western provinces of the Russian Empire, where the battle lines for several years were surging back and forth. First the Russian monarchy collected the farm products, then came the Germans, then came the civil warfare. When there is no security for a land cultivator, neither for his products nor his very life itself, there can be no production. There is land enough ...

— A Stake in the Land • Peter Alexander Speek

... This fine surging-in of sunny, revivifying Nature took at first such a strong and glad hold on Gard that his private emotions, which Elsa had so promptly sharpened and whose edge had become dulled, seemed to lay themselves pleasantly aside ...

— Villa Elsa - A Story of German Family Life • Stuart Henry

... neighborhood out of a chaos, of organizing that jumble of scattered polyglot lives.... In the faded sunshine of the unusually warm winter afternoon, with its vistas of gold-dusty air, and its noise of playing children and on-surging trolleys and trucks and all the minute life of the saloons and the stores—women hanging out of windows to get the recreation of watching the confused drama of the streets, neighbors meeting in doorways, young men laughing and chatting in clusters about lamp-posts—Joe toiled ...

— The Nine-Tenths • James Oppenheim

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