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FLOOD TIDE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
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:
Hypernyms ("flood tide" is a kind of...):
tide (the periodic rise and fall of the sea level under the gravitational pull of the moon)
Antonym:
ebbtide (the tide while water is flowing out)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The highest point of anything conceived of as growing or developing or unfolding
Example:
in the flood tide of his success
Synonyms:
climax; flood tide
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural events
Hypernyms ("flood tide" is a kind of...):
juncture; occasion (an event that occurs at a critical time)
