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tidal wave
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The Tidal Wave is a boat-based shoot-the-chutes water ride at Six Flags St. Louis that opened in 1991 in the Illinois section of the park. It uses 20-person boats and has a 50-foot waterfall that ends in a basin with 300,000 gallons of water, creating a ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ By 1978, Holocaust remembrance was becoming a national tidal wave . ▪ It was raining, as advertised, at a volume that seemed more appropriate to a tidal wave . ▪ She is suddenly engulfed by a tidal wave of self-loathing. ▪ The ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tidal wave \Tid"al wave\, n. an unusually high wave from the sea, sometimes reaching far inland and causing great destruction, and usually caused by some event, such as an earthquake, far from the shore. In Japan, such a wave is called a tsunami . [fig.] ...
Usage examples of tidal wave.
A tidal wave of agony consumed Pitt, but sheer wrath kept him on his feet.
That enraged a few loudmouths in the growing crowd, and they all pressed forward like a swelling tidal wave.
And all the while she poured out her rage at this man, she drowned him in her hatred and her grief and her determination to destroy him, emotions she had been desperately holding in check up until now so that he wouldn't catch on to what she was really doing, but now that the act was done they poured out of her like a tidal wave.
The ground erupted toward Damien, a wall of dirt and shattered stone that hit him like a tidal wave.
The Englishman claimed that he had served under the English sea dog, Francis Drake, who placed him in command of a Spanish treasure galleon that was swept into a jungle by an immense tidal wave.
A Spanish galleon was thrown into a coastal jungle by an immense tidal wave.
The wind suddenly swept in from the interior of the continent with the force of a tidal wave.
A tidal wave, he explained, can pass beneath a ship in the open ocean with a barely noticeable rise and fall.