surge
noun
[ səːdʒ ]
• a sudden powerful forward or upward movement, especially by a crowd or by a natural force such as the tide.
• "flooding caused by tidal surges"
Similar:
gush,
rush,
outpouring,
stream,
flow,
sweep,
efflux,
swell,
swelling,
heaving,
billowing,
rolling,
roll,
bulging,
eddying,
swirling,
tide,
surge
verb
• (of a crowd or a natural force) move suddenly and powerfully forward or upward.
• "the journalists surged forward"
Similar:
gush,
rush,
stream,
flow,
burst,
pour,
cascade,
spill,
overflow,
brim over,
well,
sweep,
spout,
spurt,
jet,
spew,
discharge,
roll,
whirl,
seethe,
swarm,
crowd,
rise,
swell,
heave,
billow,
eddy,
swirl,
• (of a rope, chain, or windlass) slip back with a jerk.
Origin:
late 15th century (in the sense ‘fountain, stream’): the noun (in early use) from Old French sourgeon ; the verb partly from the Old French stem sourge-, based on Latin surgere ‘to rise’. Early senses of the verb included ‘rise and fall on the waves’ and ‘swell with great force’.
