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RISING TIDE
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I. (noun)
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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 ("rising tide" is a kind of...):
tide (the periodic rise and fall of the sea level under the gravitational pull of the moon)
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