rising waters
Levels climbing higher
Rising waters refers to water levels that are increasing, whether from flooding, tides, storms, or climate change.
The phrase often carries urgency or threat: Rising waters forced thousands to evacuate.
Figuratively, rising waters can describe any mounting pressure or encroaching danger: The rising waters of public discontent threatened the regime.
- floodOverwhelming water overflow
- flash floodRapid overflow from storms
- delugeSevere overflow of water
- surgeSudden powerful increase
- swellingAbnormal tissue enlargement
tide · high tide · overflow · crest · inundation · river · storm · climate change · natural disaster · dam · levee · banks · submerge · drowning · rainfall · monsoon · evacuation · emergency shelter
- floodsflood damage, flood warning, deluge, flood warnings, flash floods
- floodwateroverflow, deluge, inundation, flash flood, river flood
- Flood MythsNoah, deluge, flood myth, biblical flood, flood story
- monsoon seasonrain, rainfall, monsoon, flooding, showers