Dictionary Entry
surge
surge is a 5-letter English word with 15 senses as noun, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A spring; a fountain. Face value is 6 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
5 letters · Scrabble 6 · Words With Friends 8 · 15 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
A spring; a fountain.
- 2noun
A large wave or billow; a great, rolling swell of water, produced generally by a high wind.
- 3noun
The motion of, or produced by, a great wave.
- 4noun
The tapered part of a windlass barrel or a capstan, upon which the cable surges, or slips.
- 5intransitive verb
To swell; to rise hifg and roll.
- 6intransitive verb
To slip along a windlass.
- 7noun
To let go or slacken suddenly, as a rope; as, to surge a hawser or messenger; also, to slacken the rope about (a capstan).
- 8noun
a sudden or abrupt strong increase
"stimulated a surge of speculation"
"an upsurge of emotion"
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- 9noun
a large sea wave
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- 10noun
a sudden forceful flow
- 11verb
See one's performance improve
"He levelled the score and then surged ahead"
- 12verb
rise or heave upward under the influence of a natural force such as a wave
"the boats surged"
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- 13verb
rise or move forward
"surging waves"
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- 14verb
rise rapidly
"the dollar soared against the yen"
- 15verb
rise and move, as in waves or billows
"The army surged forward"
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