- flood tide
- noun1. the highest point of anything conceived of as growing or developing or unfolding-
the climax of the artist's career
-in the flood tide of his success
• Syn: ↑climax2. the occurrence of incoming water (between a low tide and the following high tide)-"a tide in the affairs of men which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune" -Shakespeare
• Syn: ↑flood, ↑rising tide• Ant: ↑ebbtide• Hypernyms: ↑tide* * *
flood tide,the flowing of the tide toward the shore; rise of the tide.* * *
n. an incoming tide■ a powerful surge or flow of somethingthe trickle of tourists has become a flood tide
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noun, pl ⋯ tides [count]1 : a rising tide2 : a very large amount of somethingThe company has been subjected to a flood tide [=flood] of criticism for its hiring policies.
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a very high rise in the level of the sea as it moves in towards the coast
Useful english dictionary. 2012.