The Collaborative International Dictionary
Surge \Surge\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Surged; p. pr. & vb. n. Surging.] [Cf. F. surgir to cast anchor, to land. Cf. Surge, n.] (Naut.) To let go or slacken suddenly, as a rope; as, to surge a hawser or messenger; also, to slacken the rope about (a capstan).
Wiktionary
n. The action or an instance of a surge. vb. (present participle of surge lang= en)
WordNet
adj. characterized by great swelling waves or surges; "billowy storm clouds"; "the restless billowing sea"; "surging waves" [syn: billowy, billowing(a)]
Usage examples of "surging".
Surging forward, the waves gathered momentum and height, only to disappear within the mist which hung like a gray veil about the base of Azul Island.
Close-up jostled shots of thousands of people outside a stadium after a Goebbels speech, people surging, massing, bursting through the traffic.
The surging water swept it back into the mast, then tumbled it against the second radome before it bounced off the stack and was carried away into the darkness.
In the complex cell that was the Authority, he was no more than endoplasmic reticulum, a conduit between the nucleus that was the Colligatarch and the surging protoplasmic mass of mankind.
I could almost hear the beating of my own heart, and the blood surging through my temples sounded like blows from a hammer.
The little station edged among increasingly powerful surgings as the effects of starquake split the dimensions.
The cold, pounding wrath of stormy seawater was in Its voiceless communication, and the dark purple danger of the stiller depths, the outrage of an ancient surging elemental force now prostituted by men.
She treats the roiling, surging channels of superconductivity far below as she formerly did the highways and byways of the Net, as yet another domain to rule by proxy, by subroutine, by force of will.
For a second Trass balanced on the edge of the boat, then, with a cry of despair he was pulled over, into the surging waters beneath the raft.
Mrs Tremorne, outwardly contained, inwardly surging with a fierce determination, and entirely untroubled by conscience, decided that strategic attack was the best defence.
They were surging forward, whipping out revolvers that Verdugo had previously assured them they would not need.
Sixty or seventy of them, large and small, smooth and shaggy--deer-hound, boar-hound, blood-hound, wolf-hound, mastiff, alaun, talbot, lurcher, terrier, spaniel--snapping, yelling and whining, with score of lolling tongues and waving tails, came surging down the narrow lane which leads from the Twynham kennels to the bank of Avon.
I could almost hear the beating of my own heart, and the blood surging through my temples sounded like blows from a hammer.
Tate should have no trouble convincing tourists that the conchs would make excellent doorstops, paperweights, or instruments through which children and guests could listen to the surging drum of distant ocean waves upon the beach.
Power surged between them and Drago knew when the sorcerers jumped back from them that their eyes glowed and sparkled with the imminent release of the violence surging through them.