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flood tide

noun

  1. the inflow of the tide; rising tide.


flood tide

  1. The period between low tide and high tide, during which water flows toward the shore.
  2. Compare ebb tideSee more at tide
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51³Ô¹Ï History and Origins

Origin of flood tide1

First recorded in 1710–20
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Gen. Swing said that “hordes of aliens†were crossing the Mexican border, calling it an “alarming, ever-increasing, flood tide.†of migrants at the border.

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These enclaves, once the backbone of Ukraine’s agricultural eastern steppe, were reduced to ruin as the war passed over them like a flood tide.

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The next morning, a flood tide of parents and children washed over the kids’ area, with families backed up out the door.

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These are resolutely prosaic works; where Whitman saw “River and sunset and scallop-edg’d waves of flood tide,†not to mention crowds of hopeful immigrants, Hopper sees infrastructure.

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“To please the dead,†he composes and presents a biographical essay of her ancient hero: Julian the Apostate, “the last pagan emperor of Rome, who attempted to turn back the disastrous flood tide of Christianity.â€

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