surging
Rushing forward fast
Surging describes a powerful, swelling forward motion.
Waves surge toward shore; crowds surge through gates; electricity surges through power lines.
The word conveys sudden, forceful movement: Protesters went surging into the plaza.
Surging often describes rapid increases—surging prices, surging demand, surging poll numbers.
A surge protector guards against sudden spikes in electrical current.
Increase in size
- tideOcean's cyclical swell
- wavesTraveling energy disturbances
- crestHighest point or tuft
- breakersWaves that collapse shoreward
surf · whitecap · undertow · foam · spray · tsunami · ebb · flow
Intensely excessive in force
- passionIntense emotional drive
- fervorIntense emotional intensity
- intensityStrength or force level
- euphoriaIntense emotional high
ardor · zeal · vehemence · exhilaration · rush · welling · swelling · outpouring
Loud deep sound
- expansionIncrease in scope
- escalationProgressive increase in intensity
- proliferationRapid increase in quantity
- upswingPeriod of increase
upturn · spike · acceleration · explosion · skyrocketing · soaring · ballooning · mushrooming
swell
Increase in size
breakers · surf · whitecap · undertow · foam · spray · tsunami · ebb · flow · rushing
overwhelming
Intensely excessive in force
euphoria · ardor · zeal · vehemence · exhilaration · rush · welling · swelling · outpouring · flooding
boom
Loud deep sound
- expansionIncrease in scope
- escalationProgressive increase in intensity
- proliferationRapid increase in quantity
upswing · upturn · spike · acceleration · explosion · skyrocketing · soaring · ballooning · mushrooming · snowballing
throng
Dense pressing crowd
swarm · crush · press · stampede · rush · flood · influx · wave · onrush · deluge
power
Energy transfer rate
overload · grid · blackout · outage · transformer · circuit · generator · turbine · capacitor · protector
- fluid movementflowing, pouring, dripping, draining, oozing
- growthgrowth, grow, growing, growth rate, increase
- movementwalk, move, go, run, jump
- accelerationaccelerate, acceleration, accelerating, speed up, speeding up
- car problemsflat tire, dead battery, engine light, check engine, brake failure
- crowd adjectivespacked, dense, massive, huge, enormous
surgingebbing
Gradually declining or receding
receding · retreating · withdrawing · subsiding · pulling back
surgingdecreasing
Becoming smaller or fewer
plummeting · declining · dropping · falling · plunging