| 单词 |
flood tide |
| 释义 |
flood tide
noun
1.
a. : the rising tide — opposed to ebb tide
b. : a tide at its greatest height — compare spring tide
2. : something felt to resemble a rising tide: as
a. : a moving mass of people
< a flood tide of laughing children burst from the school >
b. : something overwhelming or overspreading
< the flood tide of recurrent barbarism >
c. : a high point : peak, climax
< the army … which at its flood tide numbered 89 combat divisions — Life >
d. : a great and usually increasing quantity or number
< a flood tide of shoddy novels >
< an effort to stem the flood tide of wheat that threatens to overrun the already jammed federal storehouses — New York Times > |
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