'Surge' definitions:
Definition of 'surge'
(from WordNet)
noun
noun
A sudden or abrupt strong increase; "stimulated a surge of speculation"; "an upsurge of emotion"; "an upsurge in violent crime" [syn: surge, upsurge]
noun
A large sea wave [syn: billow, surge]
verb
verb
verb
Rise or move forward; "surging waves" [syn: tide, surge] [ant: ebb, ebb away, ebb down, ebb off, ebb out]
verb
Rise or heave upward under the influence of a natural force such as a wave; "the boats surged" [syn: scend, surge]
verb
See one's performance improve; "He levelled the score and then surged ahead"
Definition of 'Surge'
From: GCIDE
- Surge \Surge\, n. [L. surgere, surrectum, to raise, to rise; sub under + regere to direct: cf. OF. surgeon, sourgeon, fountain. See Regent, and cf. Insurrection, Sortie, Source.]
- 1. A spring; a fountain. [Obs.] "Divers surges and springs of water." --Ld. Berners. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A large wave or billow; a great, rolling swell of water, produced generally by a high wind. [1913 Webster]
- He that doubteth is like the surge of the sea driven by the wind and tossed. --James i. 6 (Rev. Ver.) [1913 Webster]
- He flies aloft, and, with impetuous roar, Pursues the foaming surges to the shore. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- 3. The motion of, or produced by, a great wave. [1913 Webster]
- 4. The tapered part of a windlass barrel or a capstan, upon which the cable surges, or slips. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Surge'
From: GCIDE
- Surge \Surge\, v. i.
- 1. To swell; to rise hifg and roll. [1913 Webster]
- The surging waters like a mountain rise. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Naut.) To slip along a windlass. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Surge'
From: GCIDE
Synonyms of 'surge'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- access,
- accession,
- accretion,
- accrual,
- accruement,
- accumulation,
- addition,
- advance,
- affluence,
- afflux,
- affluxion,
- aggrandizement,
- amplification,
- anabasis,
- appreciation,
- arise,
- ascend,
- ascension,
- ascent,
- assemble,
- augmentation,
- awake the dead,
- ballooning,
- be poised,
- billow,
- blast,
- blast the ear,
- bloating,
- blow out,
- boom,
- boost,
- bore,
- break,
- breaker,
- breakers,
- broadening,
- buildup,
- bulge,
- bunch,
- bunch up,
- centrifugate,
- centrifuge,
- Charybdis,
- chop,
- choppiness,
- chopping sea,
- clamber,
- climb,
- climbing,
- clot,
- cluster,
- collect,
- comb,
- comber,
- come together,
- come up,
- concourse,
- confluence,
- conflux,
- congregate,
- converge,
- copulate,
- couple,
- course,
- crash,
- crescendo,
- crosscurrent,
- crowd,
- curl upwards,
- current,
- dash,
- date,
- deafen,
- defluxion,
- development,
- din,
- dirty water,
- dizzy round,
- downflow,
- downpour,
- drain,
- drain out,
- drift,
- driftage,
- eagre,
- ebb,
- ebb and flow,
- eddy,
- edema,
- elevation,
- empty,
- enlargement,
- escalade,
- exhaust,
- expansion,
- extension,
- fill the air,
- find vent,
- flock together,
- flood,
- flow,
- flow back,
- flow in,
- flow out,
- flow together,
- flowing,
- fluency,
- flush,
- flux,
- forgather,
- fountain,
- fullness,
- fuse,
- gain,
- gang around,
- gang up,
- gather,
- gather around,
- go up,
- gravity wave,
- greatening,
- ground swell,
- grow up,
- growth,
- gurge,
- gush,
- gush out,
- gyre,
- gyring up,
- heave,
- heavy sea,
- heavy swell,
- herd together,
- hike,
- hive,
- horde,
- huddle,
- increase,
- increment,
- inflation,
- inflow,
- intensity,
- issue,
- jet,
- jump,
- league,
- leap,
- levitate,
- levitation,
- lift,
- link,
- loom,
- lop,
- loudishness,
- loudness,
- maelstrom,
- make,
- mass,
- meet,
- merge,
- mill,
- mill run,
- millrace,
- mount,
- mounting,
- multiplication,
- muster,
- onrush,
- onward course,
- outflow,
- outpour,
- peak,
- peal,
- pirouette,
- play,
- popple,
- pour,
- pour out,
- productiveness,
- proliferation,
- pulsate,
- race,
- raise,
- rally,
- rally around,
- rat race,
- rattle the windows,
- rear,
- rear up,
- reel,
- regurgitate,
- rend the air,
- rend the ears,
- rendezvous,
- resound,
- riffle,
- ring,
- ripple,
- rise,
- rise and fall,
- rise up,
- rising,
- rock the sky,
- rocketing up,
- roll,
- roller,
- rough water,
- round,
- run,
- run out,
- rush,
- saltation,
- scend,
- sea,
- seethe,
- send,
- set,
- shooting up,
- sluice,
- sluice out,
- smash,
- snowballing,
- soaring,
- sonority,
- sonorousness,
- spate,
- spew,
- spew out,
- spin,
- spiral,
- spire,
- spit,
- split the eardrums,
- split the ears,
- spout,
- spout out,
- spray,
- spread,
- spring,
- spritz,
- spurt,
- spurtle,
- squirt,
- stand up,
- startle the echoes,
- stream,
- stun,
- surf,
- surge back,
- surge of sound,
- swarm,
- swarm up,
- sweep up,
- swell,
- swelling,
- swirl,
- takeoff,
- taking off,
- throng,
- thunder,
- tidal bore,
- tidal wave,
- tide,
- tide wave,
- toss,
- tower,
- trend,
- trough,
- tsunami,
- tumescence,
- turn,
- twirl,
- undercurrent,
- undertow,
- undulate,
- undulation,
- unite,
- up,
- upclimb,
- upcoming,
- updraft,
- upgang,
- upgo,
- upgoing,
- upgrade,
- upgrow,
- upgrowth,
- upheave,
- uphill,
- upleap,
- uplift,
- upping,
- uprisal,
- uprise,
- uprising,
- uprush,
- upshoot,
- upslope,
- upspin,
- upstream,
- upsurge,
- upsurgence,
- upswarm,
- upsweep,
- upswing,
- uptrend,
- upturn,
- upwind,
- vault,
- volume,
- vomit,
- vomit forth,
- vomit out,
- vortex,
- water flow,
- water wave,
- wave,
- wavelet,
- waxing,
- well,
- well out,
- wheel,
- whirl,
- whirligig,
- whirlpool,
- whirlwind,
- white horses,
- whitecaps,
- widening,
- zooming