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Abrupt increase
Answer for the clue "Abrupt increase ", 7 letters:
upswell
Word definitions for upswell in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Upswell \Up*swell"\, v. i. To swell or rise up.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A rising swell. vb. (context intransitive English) To swell upward.
Usage examples of upswell.
A violent upswell spun the Work Bug nearly two full rotations around its forward axis, its thrusters screeching as Stevens fought to regain control.
Gold felt the deck heave and lurch, and he knew another thermal upswell had pummeled his ship.
The thick barrier snapped shut between her and Stevens, and the upswell of liquid metal struck it with a gruesome, muffled thud.
Then, at a climactic moment, the high-strung momentum dissolved in an upswell of revelation, then reconciliation, and finally laughter.
No papers would say that the war had gone bad but the upswell of the wounded and ruined bespoke disasters.
Reddish patterns indicated upswells of superheated, lower-density gas and fluid.
Ken spoke I felt an upswelling of emotion and could see the same shining from the eyes of the other players.
In the decade prior to the Third World War, Fox, like many other rural towns, had experienced an upswelling in population as thousands of city dwellers left the nightmare of urban living for a peaceful rural setting.
Burdon, feeling safe enough to turn for a look back, beheld a churning, upswelling mass of light and shadow, tones reversed as in a photographic negative, rapidly, silently, filling in the depths from which they had just climbed.
She turned slightly, looking at him, and felt a deep upswelling of affection that in its own way rivaled the so-recent tumult of lustful discovery.
Leslie was not sure whether it was real or whether she had imagined it, but she could feel upswelling force palpable against her hands like a great magnetic field.