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.
Definitions
- noun. A spring; a fountain.
- noun. A large wave or billow; a great, rolling swell of water, produced generally by a high wind.
- noun. The motion of, or produced by, a great wave.
- noun. The tapered part of a windlass barrel or a capstan, upon which the cable surges, or slips.
- intransitive verb. To swell; to rise hifg and roll.
- intransitive verb. To slip along a windlass.
- noun. To let go or slacken suddenly, as a rope; as, to surge a hawser or messenger; also, to slacken the rope about (a capstan).
- noun. a sudden or abrupt strong increase
"stimulated a surge of speculation"
"an upsurge of emotion"
- noun. a large sea wave
- noun. a sudden forceful flow
- verb. see one's performance improve
"He levelled the score and then surged ahead"
- verb. rise or heave upward under the influence of a natural force such as a wave
"the boats surged"
- verb. rise or move forward
"surging waves"
- verb. rise rapidly
"the dollar soared against the yen"
- verb. rise and move, as in waves or billows
"The army surged forward"
Synonyms
upsurge, billow, rush, spate, scend, tide, soar, zoom, heave
Anagrams
Other playable words that use exactly the letters in surge:
Common word forms
surged, surger, surges, surging, surgeful, surgeless
Words from these letters
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