RISING TIDE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does rising tide mean? 

• RISING TIDE (noun)
  The noun RISING TIDE has 1 sense:

1. the occurrence of incoming water (between a low tide and the following high tide)

  Familiarity information: RISING TIDE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RISING TIDE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The occurrence of incoming water (between a low tide and the following high tide)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Synonyms:

flood; flood tide; rising tide

Context example:

a tide in the affairs of men which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune

Hypernyms ("rising tide" is a kind of...):

tide (the periodic rise and fall of the sea level under the gravitational pull of the moon)

 Context examples 

The world’s oceans are already being overfished, and assailed by a rising tide of plastic waste, as well as other pollutants.

(Oceans running out of oxygen at unprecedented rate, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

He steeled himself to keep above the suffocating languor that lapped like a rising tide through all the wells of his being.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)