RISING TIDE

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

The occurrence of incoming water (between a low tide and the following high tide)

Example:

a tide in the affairs of men which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune

Synonyms:

flood; flood tide; rising tide

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Hypernyms ("rising tide" is a kind of...):

tide (the periodic rise and fall of the sea level under the gravitational pull of the moon)

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