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Surging   /sˈərdʒɪŋ/   Listen
Surging

adjective
1.
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)
1.
Rise and move, as in waves or billows.  Synonyms: billow, heave.
2.
Rise rapidly.  Synonyms: soar, soar up, soar upwards, zoom.
3.
Rise or move forward.  Synonym: tide.  Antonym: ebb.
4.
Rise or heave upward under the influence of a natural force such as a wave.  Synonym: scend.
5.
See one's performance improve.



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"Surging" Quotes from Famous Books



... in silence there, But safe from reach of surging tide: White angels had him in their care, Christ healed and watched ...
— Christmas in Legend and Story - A Book for Boys and Girls • Elva S. Smith
... revolution, following in quick succession, proclaimed its reawakening, and to-day there is scarcely a group of people—in Egypt, in Ireland, in Korea, in the Philippines, or in dark, enslaved Africa that does not hold a molten mass of sentiment surging toward freedom,—a seething, smouldering pressure, ...
— The Next Step - A Plan for Economic World Federation • Scott Nearing
... best was the way in which the repetition of the Lord's Prayer rolled from the lips of the assembly like the sound of the surging of the sea. It was the emotional effect of a strongly emotional moment. One felt tense. It was hard to restrain tears. As far as crowd-sympathy has any spiritual value it was there. The Caucasian God was taken out of ...
— The Conquest of Fear • Basil King
... time's surging, billowy sea A ship now slowly disappears, With freight no human eye can see, But weighing ...
— The Mountain Spring And Other Poems • Nannie R. Glass
... Burgundy without a trace upon his round, smug face of the indignation surging within him. His skilled hand replenished ...
— The Lady of Big Shanty • Frank Berkeley Smith


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