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SURGING
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Characterized by great swelling waves or surges
Example:
surging waves
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Similar:
stormy ((especially of weather) affected or characterized by storms or commotion)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb surge
Context examples:
I should have felt terrible fear at seeing Jonathan in such danger, but that the ardour of battle must have been upon me as well as the rest of them; I felt no fear, but only a wild, surging desire to do something.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
He was mastered by the sheer surging of life, the tidal wave of being, the perfect joy of each separate muscle, joint, and sinew in that it was everything that was not death, that it was aglow and rampant, expressing itself in movement, flying exultantly under the stars and over the face of dead matter that did not move.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
All the fighting blood of his breed was up in him and surging through him.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
A heavy surf thundered and burst over an outjutting rock; lowering storm-clouds covered the sky; and, outside the line of surf, a pilot-schooner, close-hauled, heeled over till every detail of her deck was visible, was surging along against a stormy sunset sky.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
